During the Cold War, military aircraft of the opposing blocks would often meet over the Iron Curtain, the border between Western and Communist countries of Europe. Such encounters usually ended ...

French Rafale fighter jets intercepted two Russian aircraft near the coast of Latvia over non-compliance with international aviation regulations, according to the Joint Staff of the French Armed ...

The first aircraft intercepted was an An-30, designated by NATO as CLANK — a Soviet-designed cartographic aircraft equipped with modern photo-reconnaissance technology.

The MiG-23 was the Soviet Union’s ambitious answer to the next generation of Western fighter jets, a plane designed to r ...

Four Russian warplanes were intercepted by U.S. Air Force fighter jets off the coast of Alaska on Tuesday. Two of the planes flying off the Alaskan coast were Russia’s Tu-95 Bear Bomber, an aircraft ...

Key Points – The Soviet Mikoyan MiG-31 “Foxhound,” developed as a sophisticated successor to the MiG-25, became a formidable long-range interceptor designed to counter Western nuclear ...

A Cold War fighter jet, which spent the majority of its service at RAF Binbrook, has been fired up for the first time in 18 years. Lightning XR724, was designed to intercept Soviet bombers and ...

A Russian Air Force Il-20M electronic intelligence aircraft operates in the Sea of Japan on April 25. Tokyo routinely publishes notable military aircraft and ship movements around its territory.

The emphasis on aircraft carriers, what the U.S. Navy called Anti-Carrier Warfare, led to the Soviet Navy fielding a formidable force of guided-missile cruisers and battlecruisers.

The Il-38 is a derivative of the four-engined turboprop Ilyushin Il-18 transport aircraft, deployed by the Soviet Navy as a maritime patrol aircraft. The aircraft first entered service in the 1970s.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: From its inception in the early 1980’s through to the present day, the MiG-31 has been the fastest aircraft to serve in the formerly Soviet and now Russian ...