Everyone’s heard about the Harrier jump jet. Arnold Schwarzenegger used one to blast terrorists in True Lies. The Royal Navy beat him to the punch when it used a few dozen to score twenty air-to-air ...

Summary and Key Points: The Yak-41 (Yak-141) was a Soviet attempt at creating a supersonic VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, developed in the 1980s but ultimately shelved after the... The ...

Russia's sole aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has been out of action for years for repairs. Russia's navy and its Soviet predecessor both struggled to keep their aircraft carriers operational.

In his book A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia, published in English in 2002, Alexander Yakovlev set about exposing the whole Leninist/Stalinist "experiment" as a crime against humanity. As a ...

On this day in aviation history, 73 years ago (June 19, 1952), the Yakovlev Yak-25 took to the skies for the first time. Known to NATO as the "Flashlight-A" or "Mandrake," the Yak-25 was a swept-wing, ...

Yak-130M with new equipment and weapons at the Army 2024 defense show. Credit: Yakovlev Russia’s Yakovlev aims to start flight trials of its Yak-130M light combat jet in the first half of 2025, the ...

A Russian drone operator's view of the Ukrainian Yak-52 and its back-seat gunner. Russians are getting really fed up with the Ukrainian crew of that Yakovlev Yak-52 training plane that has been ...