A United Nations report has accused Russia of shooting down an unmanned Georgian spy plane over the breakaway region of Abkhazia last month. The report, by the UN observer mission in Georgia, is likely to further increase tension in Abkhazia, a Russia-backed region that is officially part of ...
A Russian fighter jet was shot down by Turkey after it allegedly flew through Turkish airspace. Former CBS News Moscow bureau chief Beth Knobel joins CBSN with analysis.
Of course, during this period, the losses of the Russian military also began to increase significantly. In the Kherson region, a Russian Mi-24 "Hind" armed helicopter flying at low altitude to carry out ground attack missions was directly shot down by a shoulder mounted portable air defense ...
MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- MassiveRussian air strikes have killed at least 30 militants in northwestSyria, where a Russian fighter jet was shot down, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement Saturday. A series of high-precision weapon strikes has been delivered in the area controlled b...
Ukraine's military has claimed it shot down three Russian fighter jets in the south of the country. The Su-34 fighter bombers were reportedly brought down in the Kherson region on Friday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the air force. ...
The Soviet air force 1969 specification for its new fighter design boiled down to this: Outperform the F-15. The first attempts failed, and chief designer Mikhail Simonov took a radical step. He halted development in 1977, and began again, virtually from scratch. As Simonov said, “We kept...
It was not immediately clear if Patriot missiles also shot down the drones. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Last night’s attack was a “time-on-target,” an attack involving multiple weapon systems synchronized so that all arrive over the target at once. Time-on-target attacks are...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s air force claimed Friday it shot down a Russian strategic bomber, but Moscow officials said the plane crashed in a sparsely populated area due to a malfunction after a combat mission. Neither claim could be independently verified. Pre...
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has defended Turkey's shooting down of a Russian fighter jet at the border with Syria, saying Turkey has the right "to take all kinds of measures" against border violations according to international laws.
“was a Russian-turned-Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker pilot well-known for his flying prowess. No matter the veracity of the Ghost, Ukrainian forces appear to be clearing the skies of Russian aircraft quite handily. Oksanchencko came out of retirement to fight for Ukraine and was shot down and ...