The Su-27 was designed for a battle with the F-15 fighter jet. And yet, while that never happened, the Su-27 has become a very powerful combat fighter for the old Soviet Union and now the Russian ...

The Su-26 Flanker served as the backbone of the Russian Air Force well into the early 2000s. Out of all the Soviet-era military equipment Russian Forces use today, the Su-27 fighter is arguably the ...

The Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker was designed to compete with the American F-15 Eagle and F-14 Tomcat, and it matched up very well 40 years ago. It came out of development in the 1980s armed to the teeth with ...

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Early in the 1950s, with global tensions rising, the United States set about reinforcing both its arsenal of weapons and its repertoire of military vehicles. This era saw the birth of, among many ...