High above Ukraine’s battle-scarred fields, an unlikely aircraft is fighting back. With modern jets in short supply and ...

A light trainer aircraft crashed in the Kolomna district of Moscow region on Saturday (June 28), killing all four people on board, including crew and trainees, according to a statement from Russia’s ...

Armed with that intelligence, Ukraine’s Special Operations Center conducted a targeted strike that destroyed both aircraft at ...

The Yakovlev Yak-18T completed its first flight back in 1967, and since then, it was used not only for aerobatics but also for training pilots in Russia. The one that we have here previously belonged ...

Yakovlev upgrade seen as cost-effective solution to requirement for 400 trainers The Russian air force is rethinking its selection of the Sukhoi Su-49 as its future elementary trainer. It is shifting ...

During a media briefing held at Farnborough, Irkut‘s vice-president Konstantin Popovich recounted a funny episode that had occurred during the Yakovlev Yak-130 combat trainer first flight at the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from DCS World: Yak-52 The Yakovlev Yak-52 is a tandem seat, radial engine, trainer aircraft that served as the primary aircraft trainer for the Soviet Union and ...

The year 1942 represented the beginning of the end for the German Army in Europe. With supply lines extended beyond their limits, and a leadership that had to blindly follow Hitler’s at times erratic ...

Yakovlev is to upgrade between 50and 80 Yak-52 piston-engined trainers for the Russian air force over the next two years. The new Yak-52M variant will make its debut in August at the MAKS 2003 Moscow ...