North Korea wants its neighbors—and the United States—to fear it. That’s difficult to do when one sees how backward its military is. North Korea is a place of contradictions. Barely able to ...

The aircraft shown armed in the video bears the registration 7-9700 with the tail number 101, identifying it as the first delivered to Iran. The Yak-130 that was captured carrying the R-73 for the ...

On this day in aviation history, February 14, 1955, the first flight of a key progenitor that led to the MiG-21, the Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-2 took place. The Russian-designed Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ...