On this day in aviation history, December 30, 1947, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 made its first flight. Codenamed the “Fagot” ...

The North American Aircraft Company produced 2,294 F-100s and of those, 1,274 were F-100Ds, the most advanced and favored ...

The Ukrainian Su-25s started using the French-made AASM Hammer guided bombs in June 2024, as the stocks of Soviet-made unguided munitions were depleted ...

Ukraine says it has used an adapted air-to-air missile fired from an uncrewed surface vessel (USV), better known as a drone ...

There are currently 176 of these aircraft in active service. The MiG-29/35 Fulcrum makes up the backbone of Russia’s fleet of fighter jets. Introduced in 1984, these jets can hit speeds up to ...

INS Vikrant, India's first indigenous aircraft carrier, is equipped with 30 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters and is now ...

As recently independent Croatia built up its air force, it acquired 40 MiG-21s from Ukraine between 1993 and 1994, these aircraft having been originally used by another ex-Soviet state ...

However, a lack of Syrian funds and pressure from Israel derailed the sale. Though Turkish news media had reported that six aircraft were transferred, Russia has denied any MiG-31s were sold to Syria.

MiG-29 and Su-27 aircraft Pyongyang will receive are still "formidable," Indo Pacific Command chief Admiral Samuel Paparo said.