Russia has begun flight testing of the Su-57D, the two-seat version of the fifth-generation Su-57 multirole fighter jet, marking an important milestone for the United Aircraft Corporation’s aviation program.
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First batch of Su-35S fighters for 2026 delivered to Russia’s Aerospace Forces
The delivery departed from the factory airfield in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and marks the official start of the public Su-35S transfers in 2026.
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Russian An-26 disappears over Crimea and crash kills 29 people
Military transport aircraft lost contact during flight over occupied Crimea; Russia’s Ministry of Defense preliminarily attributes the accident to a technical failure.
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Video: Russian military An-22 aircraft breaks apart mid-air
Footage shared on social media shows the moment of the accident involving the Russian military transport aircraft An-22 Antey, which occurred on December 9 in the Furmanovsky district, near the Uvodsky reservoir.
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Ukrainian drone hits Russian An-26 military aircraft at Crimean airfield, Telegram channels say
Russian Telegram channels reported on Thursday that a Ukrainian drone allegedly struck an An-26 military transport aircraft at the Kacha airfield in occupied Crimea. The information was first released by the Russian channel “na_predel”.
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Video: New Russian UTS-800 military trainer aircraft completes first flight
At the end of November, another UTS-800 training aircraft was integrated into the flight-test campaign after successfully completing its first flight at the airfield of the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (JSC “UZGA”), part of the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Russian Union of Machine Builders.
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Video: Ukraine destroys Russian MiG-29 fighter jet and Irtysh radar in drone strike in Crimea
Special units of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) carried out another high-impact operation in occupied Crimea. On the night of December 4, 2025, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone…
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Hungarian Gripen Fighters Intercept Russian Aircraft Near NATO Airspace Over the Baltic Sea
Hungarian JAS 39 Gripen fighters, deployed for NATO’s Air Policing mission in Lithuania, intercepted on September 25 a formation of Russian military aircraft approaching allied airspace over the Baltic Sea, the alliance said in a statement.
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Russian Tu-22M3 bomber crashes in Irkutsk region
The Russian Aerospace Forces lost a strategic Tu-22M3 bomber in an accident that occurred in the Irkutsk region, in the eastern part of the country. The crash was reported by the Russian military aviation channel Fighterbomber on Telegram.
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