The Ilyushin Il-62, developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau in the early 1960s, was the Soviet Union's first long-haul jet ...

The U-2 found itself at the heart of one of the most fraught periods between the US and the Soviet Union when, in the 1960s, the spy plane was shot down over Russia. Article continues below ...

A mysterious shadow glided over Scotland, soaring at dizzying heights. The legendary 'Dragon Lady' spy plane, a relic of Cold War intrigue, has been spotted.

India says Pakistan using civil airliners as a shield; IPL 2025 suspended for a week, and more in The Hindu’s top news of the day for May 9, 2025.

RedEffect. Soviet Laser Tanks: The Forgotten Weapons That Could Blind an Army. Posted: April 22, 2025 | Last updated: April 22, 2025. During the Cold War, the USSR secretly developed operational ...

The Soviet trawler Mys Sinyavin—full of fish from the Bering Sea and headed toward its homeport on Sakhalin Island—was the only vessel close enough to rescue the P-3 crew.

Russia Smuggling US Plane Parts As Sanctions Ground Airliners March 05, 2025 00:01 CET By RFE/RL's Russian Service and ... Soviet fuselages and wings were the strongest.

The Tupolev Tu-144, a product of the Soviet Union, never had the pretense of private development. The Council of Ministers approved its development in 1963 to fly no later than 1968.

On Sept. 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines flight KAL007, with 269 people on board, went 360 miles off course and strayed into prohibited airspace over one of the Soviet Union’s most sensitive military ...

The moment in the clip where Jones mentions the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanting to blow up airliners is a reference to one of the operations Bamford documented in his book, not the 9/11 attacks ...

The Soviet Union's Tupolev Tu line of planes saw a long and successful life (again, the Tupolev Tu-73 was the first trijet plane ever), but the U.S.S.R. eventually had to start replacing them.