Summary and Key Points: The Mikoyan MiG-27 “Flogger,” a variant of the MiG-23, was a Soviet ground-attack aircraft featuring a unique design with variable-sweep wings for versatility in speed and ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In the end, only a single regiment of Soviet MiG-27s saw action during the Cold War, deployed to Shindand airbase in Afghanistan in 1988 through... Here’s What You ...

One of Tom Cruise's most iconic roles was as Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in 1986's "Top Gun." Maverick is a naval aviator who gets sent to the Navy's Fighter Weapons School, known as the ...

“Now, then, as most of you know, the F-5 doesn’t have the thrust-to-weight ratio that the MiG-28 has.” And in those few words in Top Gun, Kelly McGillis’s flight instructor uttered one of movies’ more ...