The aircraft also carried four 23 mm cannon ... it is reported the Hungarians shot down a Soviet photo reconnaissance Il-28R on Nov. 8. Hungary had used the type as well in the uprising, bombing ...

A Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance aircraft briefly violated Japan’s ... over a group of Russian-held islands, which the former Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of World War II.

Like the chef of a rival restaurant, China has been closely studying the ingredients that make up U.S. aircraft carriers—and ...

This aircraft was specially equipped for reconnaissance and diversionary flight over the territory of the Soviet Union. It had on board apparatus for aerial photography for detecting the Soviet ...

The Soviet MiG-25, which was first introduced in 1970, was built as a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft. Due to the aircraft's large wings, the US assumed it was a highly ...

The pro-Kremlin milblogger “FighterBomber,” who has links to Russia’s aerospace forces (VKS), said on Telegram on Tuesday that Su-35S fighter aircraft (NATO: Flanker) were being used for airborne ...

This adaptability made Spiral a hybrid of spacecraft and aircraft ... role platform for reconnaissance, satellite interception, and even space-based strikes. In 1965, the Soviet Air Force tasked ...

On April 15, 1969, a United States Navy EC-121M reconnaissance aircraft codenamed “Deep Sea 129” was shot out of the sky by a ...