The final nail in the coffin for the Tupolev Tu-144 came on Sunday, June 3, 1973, during the Paris Air Show when, while ...

The Russian-built Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger plane ever to fly ... whether it was sending a rocket into space or putting a man on the moon. As such, the supersonic race ...

Described as Russia's "starfighter," the MiG-41 is intended to intercept missiles and operate at the edge of space. However .

Yes, some of the hardware and technology will be reused for NASA’s next generation of heavy launch vehicles, but the orbiter – a beautiful brick of a space plane – is forever grounded.

The JASDF also scrambled fighter jets to intercept two nuclear-capable Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bombers and support aircraft in July. The Tu-95MS is an updated variant of the older Tu ...

The first Tupolev Tu-160M strategic ... program has been named after the Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Chief Yury Slyusar ...

Russia has ambitious plans for a new sixth-generation fighter, the MiG-41, touted as a successor to the MiG-31 "Foxhound" and ...

At some stages of the route, the Russian aircraft were escorted ... of using international air space and avoid violating other countries’ national borders. The Tupolev-160 (NATO’s reporting ...

The Tu-134 was originally a Soviet passenger aircraft developed by the Tupolev design bureau and was one of the most common civilian jets employed by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries during ...

NORAD, which last month also reported two Russian Ilyushin Il-38 patrol aircraft and two Russian Tupolev Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft close to Alaska has said ...

A Russian Tu-134 military transport aircraft was set on fire at a military ... The Kyiv Independent could not verify the report. The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined airliner produced in the ...