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Why Can’t Russia Build Planes Anymore?

The Sukhoi Su-57’s impressive design shows that the problem with Russia’s aerospace industry is not its talented engineers, but its antiquated manufacturing process.
The planes' detection in international airspace off Alaska comes amid tensions over Russian incursions in NATO airspace.
Two NATO officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive operational matters, told NBC News U.S. fighter jets were ...
Russia has been accused by NATO members of breaching alliance airspace with drones and aircraft. Poland and Estonia have invoked Article 4 of the alliance’s charter for security talks, in the latter ...
Over the decades, Russia has developed some of the most popular and advanced military aircraft in the world. While the MiG family of fighters has long competed with Western fighter jets, it's not the ...
NATO interceptors were scrambled again this week in response to Russian fighter jets detected over the Baltic Sea, according ...
Europe’s last Sukhoi Su-22 ground attack aircraft have been formally withdrawn from Polish Air Force service after 41 years in the air. Several of the remaining Su-22s, known to NATO as “Fitter,” made ...
An aircraft belonging to the Russian airline Rossiya suffered damage to its tail after coming into contact with another plane on a taxiway at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Wednesday, Russian news ...
A Rossiya Airlines Sukhoi Superjet 100 was involved in a ground collision with a Hainan Airlines Airbus A330-300 at Moscow ...
Two passenger aircraft collided on a taxiway at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on September 24, 2025, according to Russian ...
A Rossiya aircraft sustained tail damage after colliding with another plane on a Moscow taxiway. The Sukhoi Superjet, preparing for a flight to St Petersburg, was hit by an Airbus 330 from Air Hainan.
A Sukhoi Superjet bound for St Petersburg clipped tails with a Hainan Airlines Airbus A330 at Sheremetyevo, forcing passenger ...