Russia’s Experimental Su-47 Fighter: Better for Hobbyists Instead of Pilots: This is an airplane hobbyist’s dream. Most if not all fighter planes in a collection of miniatures have backward-swept ...

The fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of modern Russia was less of a swift, catastrophic implosion and more of a slow, drawn-out, constant state of barely contained chaos for most ...

If you've ever seen a military jet fighter in person, you may have noticed that the wings have a distinctive shape to them, angling downward from the fuselage to their tips. These are known as swept ...

All the Facts: The Russian Su-47, with its unique forward-swept wings, stands out as one of the most recognizable aircraft in the world. While forward-swept wings were explored in mid-century aircraft ...

In 1996, the March/April issue of Russian military periodical Air Fleet Bulletin published an innocuous-seeming photo of a meeting between Russian military chiefs and aviation industry counterparts.