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Gap Fillers: MiG Family Photo, models by R. Denham. The MiG-15 first saw combat over Shanghai in April 1950. As with the Japanese Zero a decade before, Western observers were not paying attention, and the appearance of the MiG-15 over Korea in November 1950 was a shock. The MiG-15 and the North American F-86 Sabre […]

A Su-27 ‘Flanker-B’ of the 582nd Fighter Aviation Regiment, part of the Soviet 4th Air Army based at Chojna, Poland, in 1990. In the same year this unit withdrew its 32 Su-27s from Poland and relocated to Smolensk, Russia, where it disbanded in 1992. Planned as a Soviet counterweight to the F-15 Eagle, the Su-27 […]

A Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear parting the clouds. RAF Tornados escorting Tu-95MS ’20’ to IAT Fairford, 23 July 1993. The Tu-4 Grows Up By the end of the 1940s, the development of turbine engines had marked the closing of the piston era. Initially, the new turbojets were small, and were not of any use for […]