While the awesome-looking Berkut never evolved into a production fighter, it still played a useful role testing new technologies—and coincidentally, revealed how external observers could be quick to ...

Key Idea: This plane never went to war–but inspired Russian aviation dramatically. In 1996, the March/April issue of Russian military periodical Air Fleet Bulletin published an innocuous-seeming photo ...

The fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of modern Russia was less of a swift, catastrophic implosion and more of a slow, drawn-out, constant state of barely contained chaos for most ...

Forward-swept wings had fascinated aircraft designers for decades because of their theoretical maneuverability advantages, but the design created dangerous aerodynamic stresses that most engineers ...

The Sukhoi Su-47 was one of Russia’s most daring fighter experiments, using forward-swept wings, advanced composites, and ...