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The Ilyushin Il-20PP is a recent development of the Ilyushin Il-20M, which Russia claims is capable of jamming modern AWACS aircraft and MIM-104 Patriot while blocking analogous jamming measures. As of November 2016, there are three Il-20PP. Technical data The Il-20M RF-93610 was shot down by a Syrian S-200 system on September 17, 2018 Il-20M
Produced. 1967–1985. Number built. 5,047. Variants. Mikoyan MiG-27. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 ( Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union. It is a third-generation jet fighter, alongside similar ...
Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy.
The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War.The word shturmovík (Cyrillic: штурмовик), the generic Russian term for a ground-attack aircraft, became a synecdoche for the Il-2 in English sources, where it is commonly rendered Shturmovik, Stormovik and Sturmovik.
A Tu-160 during the 2018 Victory Day Parade. A Beriev A-50 in flight. A Tu-214R taking off from Borisoglebskoye Airfield. An Il-78M of the 203rd Guards Air Refuelling Regiment. An An-124-100 accompanied by a Su-27UB. A Russian Air Force Ka-52 in flight. A Yak-130 at the 2012 Farnborough International Airshow. Aircraft.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 ( Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-17; NATO reporting name: Fresco) [1] is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL ...
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [1] Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident . He later worked as a helicopter pilot for KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a 1977 ...
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,[a]commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the militaryof Russia. It is organized into three service branches—the Ground Forces, Navy, and Aerospace Forces—two independent combat arms (the Strategic Rocket Forcesand Airborne Forces),[10]and the Special Operations Forces Command.