#Soviet aircraft

[usafphantom2]

Buran on the mighty An-225 Mriya in Baikonur in 1989.

Both vehicles have since been destroyed.

@11k25_energia via X

[nocternalrandomness]

A rare Soviet made Polikarpov I-16 Ishak Fighter flying at the 2010 Duxford Airshow

[ghostwarriorrrr]

F-4 Phantom intercepting a Soviet Tu-95 Bear

[pukindawgsblog]

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21 variant profiles

[bigglesworld]

Tupolev Tu-144

[blackros78]

Sukhoi Su-15 'Flagon'

[desertmarauder]

Mikoyan-Gurevich MIG-21 | Castle Air Museum, Atwater, California | 6/10/2023

[lutnistas]

former Soviet long-range bomber base ( Dolon-Chagan / Kazakhstan )

[usafphantom2]

10 September 1952. The only F4U-4B Corsair fighter-bomber victory over a MiG-15 during the Korean War. USMC Captain Jesse G. Folmar of VMA-312 shot down a MiG-15 before being shot down himself. He survived and was rescued.

@ron_eisele via X

[nocternalrandomness]

US Navy F-14 from VF-114 escorting a Soviet Tu-95 Bomber over the Pacific Ocean - 1983

[aviaposter]

Tupolev Tu-154M Donavia

Registration: RA-85626 Type: Tu-154M Engines: 3 × D-30КU-154 Serial Number: 0753 First flight: 1987

Donavia, a former Russian airline, was a division of Aeroflot and operated domestic and international flights from southern Russian cities. Donavia's base airports were located in Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Sochi and Mineralnye Vody. The company's head office was located in Rostov-on-Don. The Rostov United Aeroflot Squadron was founded on June 15, 1925, which later became one of its largest divisions. In 1993, squadron was reorganized into Don Airlines (Donavia). In the spring of 2000, Donavia, with the support of Aeroflot, founded the airline Aeroflot-Don, but in 2009 the airline returned to its former name Donavia. In 2016, the airline was integrated into Rossiya Airlines.

Poster for Aviators. aviaposter.com

[emperornorton47]

Migs

[cid5]

Ernst Kupfer Stuka Ace of StG 2 ,Immelmann" during Operation Barbarossa in the Soviet Union, 1941/42.

[irondeterrent]

Soviet MiG-23M in flight in 1989

[enriquemzn262]

Gotta love it when military aircraft manufacturers decide to make passenger aircraft in the laziest way possible, by taking a bomber design and just adding a wider fuselage, for example:

The Soviet Tupolev Tu-104

Comes from the Tu-16 medium bomber

The Tu-114

From the Tu-95

And the Tu-70 prototype

Comes from the soviet copy of the American Boeing B-29 bomber, which also had an official airliner derivative

The Boeing Stratocruiser.

And since we’re outside the iron curtain

The British Avro York

Is a heavily modified variant of the iconic Avro Lancaster heavy bomber.

[humanoidhistory]

From the draft folder. (via)