The Su-34 was designed as Russia’s answer to the F-15E Strike Eagle—a high-speed, long-range strike fighter capable of deep ...

With its forward-swept wings and black body, the plane was named the “Golden Eagle” (“Berkut” in Russian). It represented the apotheosis of many Soviet military aerospace theories.

At first glance, the photograph of two fighter jets — one parked on the tarmac and other zooming past it in the air — appears ...