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In 1997, Russia unveiled the Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut, one of the most unusual fighter aircraft ever built. The aircraft was built with forward-swept wings...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s Mikoyan Project MiG 1.44 was conceived in the late 1980s as the Soviet Union’s answer to the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s MiG 1.44 was developed by Mikoyan in the 1980s and 1990s as the Soviet Union’s answer to the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
“I could not believe it. I knew at that moment the U.S. Air Force had a problem on its hands that we could never...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Synopsis: Russia’s arms sales to China in the 1990s and 2000s helped accelerate Beijing’s modernization—fighter jets, air defenses, engines, submarines, and destroyers that seeded...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Su-27 entered service in 1985 as the USSR’s premier agile heavyweight fighter—long denied to U.S. evaluators. -After the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Su-35 Flanker-E is Sukhoi’s 4.5-generation evolution of the Su-27, pairing AL-41F1S thrust-vectoring engines with upgraded avionics and a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Su-47 Berkut was Sukhoi’s forward-swept, fly-by-wire testbed—not a frontline fighter. -First flown in 1997, the lone prototype combined...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Born to counter the F-15, Russia’s Su-27 became the template for a family of agile, long-range fighters—and it still...