Over the decades, North Korea acquired newer models from Russia. They then augmented their MiG-21 fleet by purchasing tranches of China’s Chengdu J-7, which itself was a licensed copy of the MiG-21.

North Korea’s Missile Breakthrough and MiG-29 Integration. The missile was fired from a MiG-29 platform during the display, which was part of Kim Jong Un’s tour of the 1st Guards Air Division.

The decision to hand over MiG-29s to Pyongyang shows the growing relationship between Russia and North Korea, which has evolved specifically because of the Ukraine War and Russia’s paucity of ...

Russian Sukhoi Su-35 and MiG-29 military jets fly over Red Square during the Victory Day parade on May 9 in Moscow, Russia. North Korea is set to receive MiG-29s in exchange for its deployment of ...

A Korean War-era US Air Force F-86 Sabre, left, chased by a MiG-15 with North Korean markings at an air show in Michigan in July 2000. REUTERS/HO/USAF/MSgt.

Russia’s foreign minister has warned the U.S., South Korea and Japan against forming a security partnership targeting North ...

Today, North Korea’s top MiG-29 units are now at least a full generation behind both countries – with other fighter classes being two or more generations behind.

After President Trump threatened last week to “totally destroy” North Korea, ... An EC-121 was shot down by North Korean MiG-21s on April 15, 1969, killing all 31 crew members.

Soviet and Chinese Mig-15s marked with North Korean insignia would strike. Needing to stay close to the border, their patrol pattern created an unusually crowded airspace — Mig Alley.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the country's air force drills ... Footage of the drills aired on state TV showed a MiG-29 jet launching a missile that appeared to be a North Korean ...

DAYTONA BEACH − No Kum-Sok's dramatic escape from North Korea by flying his MiG-15 fighter jet to a U.S. air base in South Korea in 1953 made him an international celebrity.. He wound up shaking ...

Footage of the drills on North Korean state TV showed a MiG-29 jet launching a missile, which appeared to be a North Korean version of a Russia-developed mid- to long-range air-to-air missile, ...