Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot ...

The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 (also fitted to the Ilyushin Il-2 and Lavochkin LaGG-3). This ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...

Various land-based fighters were converted to become seaplanes during the Second World War. A few were very impressive, like ...