Key Points: Overall, the Su-27 remains one of the best fourth-generation fighters, with excellent range and weapons capacity. Its lack of stealth features is a notable weakness, but it continues ...

The Su-27 was designed for a battle with the F-15 fighter jet. And yet, while that never happened, the Su-27 has become a very powerful combat fighter for the old Soviet Union and now the Russian ...

What was meant to be a fun day for the families gathered at the Sknyliv airfield on July 27, 2002, quickly turned into an unprecedented catastrophe. It was the 60th anniversary of the Ukrainian Air ...

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 ...

The Sukhoi Su-35S is Russia’s primary high-end fighter, a heavily modernized 4.5-generation derivative of the Su-27 Flanker. ...

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 ...

A screenshot of a Russian Su-27 Flanker approaching a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper over the Black Sea from a video released by the Pentagon on March 16. On Thursday, the Pentagon released declassified video from ...

The Russian Ministry Of Defense has released footage of a close encounter between Su-27 Flankers and RAF Rivet Joint with Typhoon escort. On Oct. 19, 2023, an RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint intelligence ...

FLANKER 2.0 improves on the technical excellence of the original game by adding spectacular new 3-D graphics and sound effects. Choose a plane--the Su-33 Flanker or the Su-27 Flanker--and take off ...

Jets Iran ordered from Russia have begun arriving in the country, according to Iranian media reports. However, these aircraft are not the Su-35 Flanker fighter jets Tehran had hoped to begin receiving ...