For more than three decades, the powerful Sukhoi Su-27 fighter has patrolled the skies over the USSR, its former territories and Russia. Designated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as ...

The Su-26 Flanker served as the backbone of the Russian Air Force well into the early 2000s. Out of all the Soviet-era military equipment Russian Forces use today, the Su-27 fighter is arguably the ...

Key Points and Summary - Born to counter the F-15, Russia’s Su-27 became the template for a family of agile, long-range fighters—and it still flies despite sanctions. -Ukraine now mates Western decoys ...

Russia’s Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighter was designed to be superior to American F-15 Eagles and F-14 Tomcats. The Flanker jet was considered a technological marvel toward the end of the Cold War 40 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Su-27UB Flanker-C sits in the hangar of the Cold War Gallery, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Overall, the lineup ...

Early in the 1950s, with global tensions rising, the United States set about reinforcing both its arsenal of weapons and its repertoire of military vehicles. This era saw the birth of, among many ...

Here’s a walkaround of the Su-27 recently added to the U.S. Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio. The former Ukrainian Air Force Su-27UB Flanker C recently acquired by the National Museum of the U.S. Air ...