Among the developers of airborne radar equipment, the Phazotron-NIIR company is Russia's sole developer of airborne radar and weapons control systems for fighter aircraft. On the one hand, this necessitated the use of the most promising circuit engineering and design solutions in order to minimize size and weight. On the other hand, many years of cooperation with the General Designers ... [+]

Mig-23 for the first time was demonstrated in 1967 in Moscow on a holiday in honour of a day of aircraft. Shoulder-wing variable-geometry configuration; sweep variable manually in flight or on ground to 16o, 45o or 72o (values given in manuals and on pilot's panel; true values 18o 40', 47o 40' and 74o 40' respectively); two hydraulic wing sweep motors driven separately by main and control ... [+]

The Foxbat is a high-performance, high-altitude interceptor. This fast interceptor has also been deployed as a high altitude reconnaissance platform. Given the NATO reporting name 'Foxbat', the MiG-25 was designed to intercept the US XB-70 bomber and Lockhead SR-71 that was to have been capable of Mach 3. The XB-70 was never built however, so the Soviets were left with a long-range interceptor ... [+]

During the MAKS '97 Air Show, the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin stayed over half an hour, instead of the scheduled five minutes, in the pavilion of the MIG "MAPO." He was attracted by the latest updated version of the famous MiG-29SMT fighter. Impressively built President felt comfortable enough in the cockpit of the new aircraft to stay there for ten minutes asking the ... [+]

The MiG-31 Foxhound exhibited for the first time at the Paris 1991 Airshow entered production in 1979 and, with a speed of Mach 2.35, now assumes the title of the fastest production military aircraft in the world following the retirement of the Lockheed SR-71. Sitting on its large staggered twin-wheel main undercarriage, the 70 ft 6 in (21.5 m) long MiG-31 is a mighty machine. MiG-31E fighter-interceptor ... [+]

Mikoyan article 1.42 also known as MFI (Mnogofunktsionalny Frontovoi Istrebitel - Multifunctional Frontline Fighter), and sometimes referred to in the West as "ATFski" is a low-observable (LO) multirole fighter. The primary mission of the 1.42 is air-superiority as the primary mission, which makes 1.42 a direct Russian equivalent of the USAF F-22. "Russia Working on Stealth Plasma Russia ... [+]

Development of Russia's LFI (logkiy frontovoi istrebitel) lightweight tactical fighter has been dramatically accelerated after the Russian Air Force decided its priorities for the next 10 years. Revealed here exclusively as the I-2000 (Istrebitel {fighter} 2000) project, the aircraft is due to become operational in 2005 as Russia's basic front-line fighter. It is also likely to become the ... [+]

The local and foreign press have published articles reporting that in the S-37 Russia has created a "multi-purpose fighter of the fifth generation, combining features of a supersonic super maneuverable aircraft undetectable by radar and infra-red surveillance devices." S-37 Current economic hardships in Russia hamper development of its industry, primarily the hi-tech sectors. ... [+]

In 1965 in Sukhoi OKB have begun creation of a new fighter - bomber with changed geometry of a wing on the basis of well recommending itself Su-7. In 1967 the experimental copy of a new plane, under a label Su-7IG, was shown to audience on air parade “ Domodedovo. In 1970 the new machine which has received the title Su-17, was accepted in service. Main difference from the predecessor has ... [+]

Su-27 - answer of Russia to creation in USA of a fighter F-15 intended for a gain of domination in an air and having unique battle(dashing) possibilities. The journal “Interavia” has named Su-27 “ as the most capable fighter in the world ”. The beginning of the biography Su-27, machine of the fourth generation, is dramatic. Creating an equivalent F-15, the designer collective led by M. Simonov ... [+]