Why the Su-47 failed: There are dozens of military aircraft that could have been the “next big thing,” but never made it off the drawing board – while there are dozens more that resulted in little ...

Suppose the identical quality that renders a fighter aircraft revolutionary is also the one that keeps it from ever actually flying as a weapon of war. The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut is a stark case history ...

The Russia-Ukraine war, among the most closely monitored and thoroughly documented conflicts in history, has generated some of the most terrifying—but also incredibly rare and spectacular—combat ...

Summary: At the MAKS 2019 air show in Zhukovsky, Russia, the Su-47 Berkut, a remarkable but ultimately unsuccessful piece of Russian military aviation from the 1990s, was put on display, marking its ...