An unusual formation flew over Nellis AFB to honor retired U.S. Air Force Col. Gail Peck, "Bandit 1", who passed away ...

It was during this tour, in 1972, that Cherry engaged in a fierce aerial dogfight and shot down a North Vietnamese MiG-21.

The MiG-21 proved a worthy match for the F-4 Phantom when it entered the war in June 1966. The North Vietnamese air force would monitor bombing attacks, sending MiGs into the fray when bombers ...

Operation Linebacker II, the "Christmas bombing" campaign of December 1972, was a significant effort by the U.S. to force ...

Airman 1st Class Albert Moore, the last U.S. airman to down an enemy fighter as a B-52 tail gunner, was honored this month at ...

100 of which were over North Vietnam. He was discharged after his 100th mission as was standard procedure. Buttell said his ...

How the propaganda show revealed the real situation of North Korea's combat aviation and how it differs from the "on-paper" data The Military Balance 2024 directory indicates that North Korea formally ...

North Korea sent more than 1,000 soldiers to North Vietnam between 1966 and 1972, including hundreds of pilots who flew MiG-17s in combat, according to a book published in 2017 by the South Korean ...

The Russian Air Force suffers from a lack of pilots (as do most air forces), and Russia may have asked North Korea for ...

The Soviet-era MiG-23 "Flogger," designed as an affordable, swing-wing alternative to the MiG-21, ultimately fell short of ...

If Kim sent troops to Russia to provide them with combat experience as some experts believe, one wonders if the North Korean despot — who at age 40 was born well after the Vietnam War — was ...