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The Tu-160 Could Do Some Serious Damage in Ukraine. Here’s Why: While Russia operates several different bomber models in active service, the Tu-160 sticks...
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The Tu-160 Could Do Some Serious Damage in Ukraine. Here’s Why: While Russia operates several different bomber models in active service, the Tu-160 sticks...
Russia’s Su-75 Checkmate Stealth Fighter Has a Problem: Ever since it was first unveiled at the 2021 MAKS Airshow near Moscow, significant speculation has emerged...
Has Russia’s Air Force finally turned the corner in Ukraine? Did a Russian Su-30 recently shoot down a Ukrainian Su-27P fighter? We know the Ukrainian...
The MiG-35 seemed like it could be a good addition to Russia’s Air Force. And yet, the jet seems to be in a strange...
While the Soviet Union’s MiG-23 was designed to go toe-to-toe with American and European third-generation fighters and replace the aging MiG-21, it is not...
Ukraine’s unfriendly skies: On day 101 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military is pushing hard in the Donbas, but the Ukrainian forces are...
Despite having a significantly larger air force than Ukraine (15 times larger by some accounts), the Russian military has failed to gain air superiority,...
In a June 1 speech to the Bundestag, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany would supply Ukraine with the IRIS-T SL air-defense system,...
Russia’s “best” military hardware hasn’t fared so well in Ukraine. The Kremlin has already seen the loss of multiple T-90M main battle tanks (MBTs),...
Russia’s Su-34 Is No Game Changer in Ukraine Russia’s air force is not doing the job over Ukraine. Its fighter planes’ struggles are well documented and surprising....