Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. polikarpov Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the ...

In the 1930s, Soviet engineer Vladimir Vakhmistrov envisioned a flying aircraft carrier - not fiction, but a bomber carrying ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

The Yer-2 bomber was one of the Soviet Union’s most ambitious aircraft designs of World War II. Built for long-range missions and strategic bombing, it was capable of striking deep behind enemy lines, ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, the convergence of both forces in Central Europe led to the only documented direct combat between American and Soviet forces in history. American P-38 Lightning fighters attacked what ...