Mikhail Simonov was an aircraft designer whose innovative planes placed the Soviet Union at the forefront of aerial warfare. His supremely manoeuvrable, heavily armed Su-27 jet fighter is recognised ...

MOSCOW – Aircraft designer Mikhail Simonov, whose supremely maneuverable, heavily armed and far-flying Sukhoi fighter jet became an icon of the Soviet defense industry and a cash cow for ...

Interviewing Mikhail Simonov was not exactly conducive to working on tight deadlines. As one former Flight International journalist recalls, the experience usually ended with an upturned vodka bottle, ...

Mikhail Simonov, designer of the iconic fighter jets Su-27 and Su-30, has been at the forefront of aircraft design for more than 50 years. To celebrate his 80th birthday this month, we hear from the ...

The book translated by Hassan Rezai-Sadr consists of two parts. The first part is about the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. The second part includes two short stories and a war report by the ...

Charles Jarrott, 83, a British film and TV director best known for the Hal Wallis productions “Anne of the Thousand Days” and “Mary, Queen of Scots,” died Friday at the Motion Picture Home retirement ...

CHATHAM, Virginia, June 14. LARRY Simonov, a former Olympic coach for the Soviet Union and current American citizen, has been hired by Hargrave Military Academy to head and further develop the Academy ...

Mikhail Simonov, one of Russia’s top aircraft designers and creator of the famous Sukhoi fighter jets, has died. He was 81. Simonov died in Moscow on Friday, said Sukhoi company’s spokesman Sergei ...