The National Museum of the U.S. AIr Force's latest acquisition, an Su-27UB Flanker-C, has a curious history. The U.S. Air Force's famed museum in Dayton, Ohio has acquired a Soviet-designed Sukhoi ...

Overall, the lineup certainly makes for an interesting array of types grouped together, particularly Soviet types, each with their own interesting back-stories. The museum also released imagery and ...

More interesting details about the somewhat mysterious story of the Su-27UB Flanker C “61 Blue” are emerging: for the first time, the U.S. Air Force has revealed they bought the Sukhoi in 2011. Last ...

First of all, we get news from DC Designs, that spelled its development schedule for 2022. Besides the upcoming Concorde, which is 90% into development, we’re also getting a SU-27 Flanker (60% ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has a new fighter on display, but not one of the latest offerings from Boeing or Lockheed Martin. The jet is a Cold War-era Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker that was designed and built in ...

The Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker was designed to compete with the American F-15 Eagle and F-14 Tomcat, and it matched up very well 40 years ago. It came out of development in the 1980s armed to the teeth with ...

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO reporting name Flanker). The ministry further claimed to have shot down multiple High Mobility ...

As an experimental Su-27 variant, the Su-27LL-PS tested advanced 2D thrust vectoring for enhanced maneuverability, providing critical insights into supermaneuverable flight dynamics, material ...