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This is a list of Russian military aircraft currently in service across three branches of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as in the National Guard of Russia. The list further encompasses Russia's experimental aircraft and those currently in development. The figures presented below do not account for losses incurred in Ukraine, as conflicting ...
Emblem of the Russian Air Force Emblem of the Russian Aerospace Forces. This is a list of military aircraft currently in service with the Russian Air Force as of 2024. It belongs under larger Russian Aerospace Forces branch, established on 1 August 2015 with merging of the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces.
It also includes both native Soviet designs, Soviet-produced copies of foreign designs, and foreign-produced aircraft that served in the military of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its successor states of the CIS. The service time frame begins with the year the aircraft entered military service (not the date of first flight ...
Mikoyan, also known as Mikoyan-Gurevich, is a renowned Soviet aircraft manufacturer founded in 1939 by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. They produced some of the most iconic fighter jets in aviation history.
Aircraft have also been deployed in Belarus for sorties over Ukraine. On 25 February 2022, Ukrainian forces reportedly destroyed several aircraft and set a Russian airbase on fire in the Millerovo air base attack. [32] On 13 March 2022, Russian forces launched cruise missile attacks on Yavoriv military base near the Polish border.
Footage and photos show the Su-35 flying past the F-16 during an intercept of a Russian aircraft. A Russian military jet flew dangerously close to a US aircraft during an intercept near Alaska ...
Russian Su-34 and Su-25 attack aircraft carried out air strikes the next day against Islamic State targets in Syria's Hama province using precision bombs. According to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, Su-34s hit an ISIL fortified bunker in the Hama province with guided bombs.
In February 2017, it was announced that Russia's United Aircraft Corporation had signed a contract with its subsidiary Ilyushin Aviation Complex for the development of a new version of Ilyushin Il-96-400 wide-body passenger airliner to compete with the Boeing 777-9 and Airbus A350-1000. Il-96-400M is the passenger version of the Il-96-400T ...