A Real Fighter: In the 1986 film "Top Gun," the fictional MiG-28 adversary aircraft was actually portrayed by a black-painted Northrop F-5, adorned with a red-star insignia to represent a Cold War ...

Tom Cruise doesn't have anything to do with it, but the Navy flight school featured in the "Top Gun" movies really exists.

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

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It also has a 9-A-768 23-mm gun. Source ... It has a top speed of Mach 3, and can hit Mach 1.23 at low altitudes. Source: The National Interest. The MiG-31 can also reach 65,000 feet in nearly ...

Russia’s MiG Aircraft Corporation is working on the MiG-41 fifth-generation fighter-interceptor ... Kharkov Region over past day — top brass According to Defense Ministry, Russian forces ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Russia is finishing up test flights for its newest fighter jet, the MiG-35, developed over the last 10 years as a replacement to the MiG-29 that has been used since ...

Air defenses downed a MiG-29 fighter jet belonging to the Ukrainian air force ... regular rotations and emergencies" According to the top Russian diplomat, the West is using international ...

Russia has sent Argentina all the necessary materials for taking part in a tender for fighter jets with its Mikoyan MiG-29 aircraft, Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military and ...

A large number of Soviet-era MiG-29 warplanes have been ... Warsaw could not transfer its remaining jets to Kyiv without compromising its own national security. Poland supplied Kyiv with several ...