A Russian Su-27 fighter jetcollided with an American military droneover the Black Sea on Tuesday, the U.S. said. The collision made the drone "unflyable" and officials crashed it into the sea, the Pentagon said. The White House called the Russian plane's intercept of the unmanned aircraft...
MOSCOW, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet has intercepted a Swedish Gulfstream reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea. "An aerial target approaching Russia's state border was spotted by Russian airspace controls. An Su-27 fig...
Su-27 fighter jets of the Russian aerobatic team "Russian Knights" arrive at Zhuhai airport in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, Oct. 26, 2016. The 11th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition will kick off here on Nov. 1. (Xinhua/Liang Xu) 1 2 3 4 ...
MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/. Russia’s Southern Military District air defense forces detected and escorted a US reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea, the National Defense Control Center reported Tuesday. "A Su-27 jet fighter scrambled in order to identify the airborne target and prevent it ...
The powerful Sukhoi Su-27 has patrolled Ukrainian skies for 35 years; at first, as a Soviet fighter to counter the threat posed by the U.S. F-15 Eagle and today, as a Ukrainian air force interceptor protecting its airspace from Russian Su-27s and other fighters. The Flanker, as NATO...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday in a “brazen violation of international law,” causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aerial vehicle, the U.S. said. But Russia insisted its warplane...
However, the encounter was first reported by Russia's RIA news agency on Monday, which cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying that the Russian fighter jet intercepted a U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II and prevented it from violating the Russian airspace. ...
The Su-27 Flanker is a single-seat, twin-engine Mach-2 class jet fighteroriginally manufactured by the Soviet Union, and designed by the Sukhoi DesignBureau. It was intended as a direct competit...
U.S. and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision Tuesday between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Russian Su-27 fighter jet; each side blamed the other. A Pentagon spokesman raised the possibility that the Defense Department could eventually declassify and release video it has ...
A Russian Su-27 fighter jet flew within five feet of a US Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft on Monday over the Baltic Sea, according to a US official, an encounter that was assessed to be “unsafe.” The Russian plane was armed and flew “erratically,” the official added, noting...