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A Russian Air Force Pilot Defected with a Mach 2.3 MiG-29 Fulcrum Fighter Jet
Key Points and Summary – The 1989 defection of Soviet pilot Aleksandr Zuyev provided the West with a “windfall” of critical ...
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The U.S. Military Purchased 21 Russian-Made Mach 2 MiG-29 Fighters
In 1997, the U.S. executed a highly effective “covert acquisition” by purchasing Moldova’s entire fleet of 21 MiG-29 fighter ...
Considered to be the “boogeyman” of the Cold War, the Soviet-designed MiG-29 fighter was arguably overhyped. As the arms race between the USSR and the U.S. was heating up in the post-WWII era, both ...
Sunday’s Super Bowl included a first-of-its-kind flyover involving five U.S. military aircraft representing different eras from the Second World War to the modern day. The United States Air Force ...
Americans are accustomed to calling military aircraft by a name other than the F-22 or F35, so those jets are commonly referred to as the Raptor or Lightning II. Not every world power follows this ...
There’s no use hiding from enemy drones if the drones watch you scurry into your hiding spot. On or just before Monday, a squad of around a dozen Russian infantry marched into a road underpass they’d ...
Ukrainian Air Force has unveiled a new matte-black paint scheme for one of its MiG-29 fighters—and it’s gaining attention. [Ukrainian Air Force/ screenshot] The Ukrainian Air Force has unveiled a new ...
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