Russia built it first. Then the U.S. quietly made it better. The Yak-141 was a revolutionary vertical takeoff jet—and when the Cold War ended, its tech didn’t stay in Russia. This is the story ...

To this day, only a handful of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) combat aircraft have ever been successfully ... saw some combat service in the Russian Afghanistan campaign, the Yak-38 never ...

Vertical Landing and Takeoff, or VTOL ... SC1 — as putting British ahead of the United States and Russia in the race to develop jets that can operate from small airfields instead of mile ...

(Russian Aircraft Dominate the world’s fighter jets in vertical climb capabilities ... allowing it to take off from shorter runways. It has earned the nickname of “Cheburashka” in Russia ...

Initially Russia wanted to use vertical takeoff warplanes like the Harrier or F-35B vertical takeoff aircraft. Russia was unable to create aircraft similar to the British Harrier and American F-35 and ...

“Oh, f–k!” an onlooker cries out in Russian off camera. Each Su-25 jet costs an estimated $11 million to manufacture. The fighter jets have been in use since 1976 by Russian, Ukrainian and ...

(Russian aircraft dominate the world’s fighter jets in vertical climb capabilities ... allowing it to take off from shorter runways. It has earned the nickname of “Cheburashka” in Russia ...

Russia's sole aircraft carrier ... The Soviets had seen the advantages in the vertical/short-takeoff-and-landing design, or V/STOL, used by Britain's Hawker Siddeley Kestrel — the precursor ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine and President ... which is developing eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft mainly for air-taxi operations. The startup has more than 1,500 preorders ...

A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said. The crash comes just weeks after the ...