Here’s What You Need to Remember: While the awesome-looking Berkut never evolved into a production fighter, it still played a useful role testing new technologies—and coincidentally, revealed how ...

The sole S-37 first flew on September 25 1997. Though only one was made, its Batman-like aesthetic earned it a lasting place ...

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 ...

The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut was one of the most radical fighter jet prototypes ever built, featuring forward-swept wings for incredible maneuverability and agility. Developed in the 1990s, it was meant to ...

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 ...

The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut stunned the world with its extreme agility, made possible by forward-swept wings and advanced thrust-vectoring engines. Designed in the 1990s as a bold, self-funded project, it ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In fact, the Berkut ended up pioneering several technologies which eventually found their way into the Su-57, which amounts to a more dedicated effort to develop a ...