Everyone’s heard about the Harrier jump jet. Arnold Schwarzenegger used one to blast terrorists in True Lies. The Royal Navy beat him to the punch when it used a few dozen to score twenty air-to-air ...

One of the most innovative fighters of its time, the Yak-38 (NATO reporting name “Forger”) was meant to mark a new chapter in Soviet naval doctrine. Instead, it succeeded only in exposing the ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought its own answer to Britain’s revolutionary Harrier jump jet. The result was the Yakovlev Yak-38, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed for ...

Though not quite a household name like MiG (Mikoyan-Gurevich), Sukhoi and Yakovlev are nonetheless famous names in the annals of Soviet/Russian military aircraft production history. Sukhoi Design ...

So much of the western understanding of the capabilities of the Soviet Air Force before the fall of the Berlin Wall resulted from hyperbole and word-of-mouth hype-ups resulting from a deliberate ...

The Yak-3 was one of the best combat aircraft during WWII, not only in the Soviet Union but worldwide as well. The designers made it as light as possible, at the same time significantly increasing its ...