Here are some images I wasn’t expecting to see this century. It shows the Su-27s of the Russian Knights aerobatic team being escorted by Iranian F-14 Tomcats and F-4 Phantoms. Talk about bizarre. Two of America’s legendary Cold War fighters being flown by one of its biggest 21st Century adversaries alongside two Soviet-designed jets […]
Crazy Ivan
Happy Tuesday, everyone. I’ve been at a briefing on Iran all morning so while I digest that I thought I’d give you this awesome picture of a Soviet Lun-class ekranoplan firing one of its six massive P-270 Mosquito anti-ship missiles while speeding over what’s likely the Caspian Sea sometime in the late 1980s or 1990s. […]
As Syria’s damn near civil war continues, Russia is selling the Bashar al Assad’s regime 36 Yakovlev Yak-130 attack jets under a freshly inked $550 million contract. As Business Insider says, ‘nobody tells Russia who they can’t sell arms to.’ Not even when it’s a pariah regime that’s killed more than 5,000 of its own people in […]
Happy Friday! These pictures of a rusting Soviet rocket motor factory taken by the adventurous young lady shown above have set the Internet abuzz. The explorer, named Lana, broke into the Energomash plant oustide Moscow and broke in, traipsing all over the place. As Animal NY points out, Russian officials are not pleased. Lana’s website […]
So uh, how often do you see a brand new luxury SUV facing off against the latest in Russian tank tech? This video after the jump shows some Russian dude racing a Land Rover Discovery 4 against what looks like the new T-90M tank (though the video says its a T-90S). Both are very slick-looking […]
