Yakovlev Yak-27R / Як-27Р, NATO reporting name “Mangrove” (c/n 477, formerly “0708” – “red 28” of the Soviet Air Force), exhibited at Technikmuseum “Hugo Junkers” in Dessau, August 2025. In the early 1950s, the Soviet […]
On 5th April 1948, a British Vickers VC.1B Viking airliner and a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter aircraft collided in mid-air in the airspace above Berlin, near RAF Gatow station. Historical background of the […]
On 8th April 1950, four Lavochkin La-11 fighters intercepted a US Navy aircraft, performing signal intelligence (SIGNIT) mission off the Soviet coast of the Baltic Sea. That aircraft, a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, was shot down […]
Ilyushin Il-78M-90A / Ил-78М-90А, NATO reporting name ´Midas´ (c/n 02-01, Russian Aerospace Forces RF-78741), prototype of aerial tanker based on an Ilyushin Il-76MD-90 strategic airlifter, static display at MAKS aviation fair, August/September 2019. The first […]
On 29th October 1936 (or 28th October, depending on the source), four Tupolev SB-2 bombers raided Tablada airfield near Sevilla, in support of Republican forces. It was the very first time during the Spanish Civil […]
6 August 1941 – night-ramming of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber by V.V. Talalikhin. Viktor Vasilevich Talalikhin (Виктор Васильевич Талалихин) was born on 18th September 1918 in Tepolvka village, near Saratov. In 1934, his […]
Antonov An-26, a twin-engine, turboprop transport aircraft, performed its maiden flight. Antonov An-26 is one of the most-known aircraft designed by the Antonov construction bureau and, at the same time, stays among the best remembered […]
Lavochkin La-250A ´Anaconda´ (Ла-250A «Анаконда»), the fourth prototype of high-altitude interceptor, open-air exhibition at the Central Air Force Museum in Monino, July 2017. With continuous growth of the jet-powered aviation, that arrived in the mid-1950s, […]
Maiden flight of ´aircraft 174´, the jet aeroplane being a base for an early Soviet fighter, Lavochkin La-15 (Ла-15, NATO reporting name: Fantail) Lavochkin construction bureau, also known as OKB-301, is usually being associated with […]
The first Soviet troops landed in Kabul and Bagram – the Soviet-Afghan War officially began. When, in April of 1978, the Saur Revolution (also known as April Revolution or April Coup) ended the rule of […]
All content on this page is copyrighted © 2018-2025 Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine