The TU 144 was meant to be the Soviet Union’s answer to the Concorde, but the rush to beat the West came at a cost. Engineers ...

I'm standing outside a locked gate and a barbed-wire fence. This is definitely the right place. Through the fence I can see some Soviet-era helicopters. The closest even says "CCCP" (the Russian ...

Explore the story of the Soviet Tupolev TB-3, a bomber that pushed the limits of technology and design in ways that still ...

When a Soviet-state-owned aerospace manufacturer is demanded by the Communist Party to build an aircraft, it gets done no matter how dumb the concept is in theory. This authoritarian approach to the ...

In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a high-altitude U.S. U-2 spy airplane and captured pilot Francis Gary Powers. Aviation Week parroted the U.S. government’s statement that the aircraft was down due ...

At the North Pole last week it rained, and the three big Soviet planes beside the base camp sank slightly into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away ...

A natural fighter ace, Ivan Kozhedub’s tactics were characterized by precision, aggression, and calculated risk. Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub, born on June 8, 1920 in the small Ukrainian village of ...

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has released details of a new modification of the ...