Ukrainian partisans set ablaze a Russian Su-30 and and a Su-27 fighter jet during an operation on the night of Dec. 21 in Russia's Lipetsk Oblast, Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) said on Dec. 22.

Ukrainian agents executed a meticulous operation, destroying two Russian fighter aircraft valued at $100 million inside a secure hangar in Lipetsk.

The most widely flown Russian aircraft is not actually any single MiG fighter jet The Mi-8/17 series was originally introduced in the 1960s but its newer variants came about in the 1980s, and these are more widely flown than the original The Mi-8/17 family ...

Serial production of a re-engined Beriev Be-200 amphibious firefighter could begin in 2028, according to Russian trade minister Anton Alikhanov. Work has commenced on a programme to modernise the aircraft and replace its Progress D-436TP engines with the ...

October 16, 2025: Last year Russia lost the last of its A-50 AWACS/Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft. It took nearly a year before anyone could confirm that Russia had lost its last AWACS aircraft over Ukraine. Since then Russia tried to get the ...

Using homemade long range drones and cruise missiles, Kyiv is hitting targets from the Mediterranean to the Caspian.

A new analysis argues that the West could meaningfully accelerate Russia’s decline as a producer of modern fighter aircraft. A report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) finds that the supply chain behind fighters such as the Sukhoi Su-35 and ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would like to see NATO fighter jets shoot down Russian aircraft violating NATO member airspace. “I do want to play something he just said to reporters as he was meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky,” said MSNBC ...