Here’s What You Need to Know: The Yak-141 Freestyle may not technically count as a predecessor to the F-35, but the JSF does seem to have at least some Russian DNA floating around its engine design.
What is it about VTOL military airplanes that billion-dollar aerospace companies just can't seem ever to get right? Well, as it happens, making a jet aircraft reliable at vertical takeoff and landing ...
Russia wants to develop a new vertical-takeoff aircraft—and new carriers to launch them. An article in the Russian newspaper Izvestia (see translation here) featured statements by two Russian ...