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Built for War: Meet Russia’s Impressive Su-27 Flanker Fighter Jet This excellent warplane was made to take on American jet fighters and is now used by countries such as China. Key point: The Su-27 flexible, powerful, and affordable. Here is how it projected Soviet power and how the Chinese made their own copies. To the West, most of the legendary Soviet aircraft of the Cold War came from the design bureau Mikoyan Gurevitch, which spawned such aircraft as the MiG-15, MiG-21 “Fishbed,”MiG-25 “Foxbat” and MiG-29 “Fulcrum.” The single best Soviet fighter of the Cold War, however, ...

Powerful Jets With One Weakness: Pakistani JF-17 Pilot Recalls Clash With Indian Su-30MKIs April 4, 2021 India, Pakistan aerial skirmish in Balakot and fighters used including Su-30MKI and JF-17 continue to intrigue defense experts. According to experts, SU-30MKIs are one of the most powerful fighters on the planet with one ‘fixable’ weakness.  The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) had deployed as many as 24 fighter jets, including the JF-17, in response to India’s airstrike on Balakot terrorist camps on February 26, 2019. Several of these jets managed to cross the Line of Control (LoC), the de...

China-Pakistan's low cost, all-weather multi-role fighter JF-17 turns out to be failure ANI | Updated: Mar 06, 2021 05:57 IST Islamabad [Pakistan], March 6 (ANI): Pakistan's JF-17 "Thunder", which was supposed to a low cost, light-weight, all-weather multi-role fighter with a Chinese airframe, has now become a liability for Islamabad due to its high Operations and Maintenance cost as compared to the modern weapon systems. In 1999, Pakistan and China had inked an agreement to jointly develop and produce the JF-17 "Thunder". They had also decided to share t...

While attempting to retaliate against India's airstrike on a Pakistani terrorist group in February 2019, the JF-17 had performed poorly against IAF Mirage-2000

Rafael Develops Ground-Based Air Defense Variant of I-Derby ER Missile Our Bureau 1812 Tests of ground-based Air Defense version of the I-Derby ER air-to-air missile Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems said today it completed the development of the ground-based Air Defense version of the I-Derby ER (Extended Range) air-to-air missile. During the test series concluded earlier this week in southern Israel, Rafael performed a ground launch to test the missile’s command and control, navigation, and flight trajectory capabilities. “This week, we completed a series of tests in the deve...