A Rush for Glory and a Fatal Flaw In the intense Cold War rivalry, the Soviet Union raced to match Western advancements ...

A Soviet-era An-24 plane with 49 onboard went down near Tynda, Russia. Search efforts are ongoing as the aging aircraft ...

A top-secret American spy plane has been spotted soaring at a height of 60,000ft over Scotland. The Lockheed U-2S 'Dragon Lady', utilised for intelligence gathering, surveillance and ...

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.

During the Cold War, the USSR secretly developed operational laser tanks capable of disabling enemy optics and even damaging human eyesight. Vehicles like the 1K11 Stilet and 1K17 Szhatie were ...

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.

The United States has detained people in five separate cases over the past two years for exporting or attempting to export planes, parts, and components to Russia, whose fleet of Boeing and Airbus ...

Government-funded supersonic passenger jets were costly and noisy. Boom Supersonic may succeed where they have failed—with mostly private dollars.

More than 40 years later, however, civilian airliners are increasingly at risk of being shot down, as well as many other equally disastrous outcomes, due to spoofing and its percolating effects on ...

Trijet planes used to be common around the world, but with the rise of twinjets, you don't see many anymore. Here are some of the biggest ones to ever fly.