Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a highly ...

If you had to choose one plane that defined Soviet airpower in World War II, there can be little doubt it was the Il-2 Sturmovik “Flying Tank,” an armored ground-attack plane that hammered Nazi ...

Discover how the Soviet Ilyushin IL-2 “Shturmovik” transformed from a ridiculed “flying tractor” into the most terrifying ...

Russian IL-20 Electronic Intelligence aircraft conducted two surveillance flights around Japan in the space of a week, ...

The multi-stop journey is emblematic of the circuitous routes used to avoid Western airspace or possible cargo inspections in unfriendly countries.