A closer look at the reasoning behind the plane's iconic swing-wing mechanism.

What You Need to Know: The Su-47 Golden Eagle was Russia’s ambitious attempt to create a fifth-generation fighter jet to rival the U.S. F-22 Raptor. Developed in the 1980s, the Su-47 featured a ...

The experimental Su-47 Russian demonstrator fighter jet was somewhat of a short-lived demonstrator, yet numerous public accounts suggest that its innovations propelled development of the country's two ...

But the variable-sweep wing design seems to have gone out of fashion most recently. As the name suggests, “variable-sweep” wings are aircraft wings that can be adjusted to different degrees of ...

The fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of modern Russia was less of a swift, catastrophic implosion and more of a slow, drawn-out, constant state of barely contained chaos for most ...

KHI has developed concept imagery for its Collaborative Support Aircraft (CSA) programme. (KHI/Janes) Kawasaki Heavy ...

In practice, the use of the supercritical airfoil design is said to increase fuel efficiency at transonic speeds, being as ...