The Sukhoi Su-25 "Frogfoot" is Russia’s answer to the A-10 Warthog, built for close air support and deadly precision strikes. In the fight against ISIL in Syria, Russian Su-25 pilots executed brutal ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China ...

One of the most tried and trusted Soviet-era fighter jets is the Su-25. Unlike some of its counterparts, the “Frogfoot” has served in numerous Soviet and Russian war zones over its four-plus... Key ...

Through the years, NATO has frequently come up with some rather interesting codenames for former Soviet/Russian-designed aircraft. For example, you have the MiG-15, the MiG-21 “Fishbed, and the Su-57 ...

The Su-25 is a twin-engine, single- and tandem-seat, ground-attack and training aircraft powered by two Tumansky/Soyuz R-195 turbojets rated at 9,921-lb.-thrust each. First prototype flight occurred ...

Russian forces shot down a Ukrainian air force Sukhoi Su-25 attack jet while it was flying a combat sortie over eastern Ukraine on Thursday. Pilot Stanislav Rykov, the veteran of more than 380 ...

Russian military bloggers boasted Thursday that Moscow's forces destroyed a Ukrainian air force Sukhoi Su-25 attack jet in southern Ukraine, but the aircraft was likely a decoy, some war observers ...

Two Russian Sukhoi Su-25 warplanes at the Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia province, in the northwest of Syria, on Dec. 16, 2015. (Paul Gypteau/AFP via Getty Images) WARSAW, Poland — In ...

The Ukrainian defense ministry on Saturday claimed its air-defense troops shot down yet another Russian air force Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber: the 11th Su-34 the Ukrainians claimed they destroyed in ...

When it comes to the nation with the world's largest air force, look no further than the United States. According to World Population Review, the U.S. had a total of 5,213 active aircraft in the Air ...