The Soviets then went to work building a jet from German engines. In 1946, the year after the war, they developed the Jumo-powered Yak-15 and the BMW-powered MiG-9 (the latter was faster). But ...

Since entering service in 1974, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle has been credited with 104 air-to-air victories without a ...

The Soviet MiG-29 is a fighter jet just as iconic as the American F-15 and F-16 it was designed to combat, and there are ...

The MiG-25 "Foxbat," developed by the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in response to U.S. U-2 and SR-71 ...

the MiG-15 marked a significant leap in jet fighter design. Introduced during the Korean War, it proved to be a game-changer, altering the course of aerial combat. As one of the first successful jet ...

The most successful Soviet fighter pilots of that conflict had no previous serious combat experience. They did not fight ...

When tested in the West in the 1990s, the Su-27 and the MiG-29 were consistently found to be capable of comfortably outperforming the F-15 and F-16. Ukraine had inherited both the fighter classes in ...

Before Yeager and Air Force test pilots Albert Boyd and H.E. Tom Collins put the MiG-15 through its paces, technicians inspected it for signs of sabotage and determined it was safe. The MiG was ...

Despite its best efforts, it's noticed by two Russian craft, a MiG-15 and MiG-17, leading to an unbalanced dogfight over enemy airspace. The story is historical fiction, Minczeski said on Friday.