Six decades is not a long run in history, but in those 69 years, the Soviet Union came up with some of the biggest, fastest, hardiest and easily-identified military aircraft to ever take to the air. And after its collapse over 30 years ago, those effects didn’t just disappear. A330 Air Tanker For The RAF; […]
Ten Times Soviet Forces Shot Down American Warplanes During the Cold War
The Cold War had established an uneasy atmosphere in the air over the borders, when American planes and Soviet planes were often able to see each other and were sometimes just an inch separated by navigational error. The United States and the Soviet Union were never directly involved in a conventional war against one another, […]
Ranking the Soviet Union’s 10 Most Formidable Cold War Aircraft
Soviet Union made one of the strongest air forces ever, and thousands of aircraft were produced in decades of severe geopolitical conflicts. Following the defeat of the Nazi Germany, the conflict between East and West soon turned into the Cold War whereby military innovation was a never-ending competition. Planes were not mere machines; they were […]