Syria became one of the key recipients of Soviet weaponry during the Cold War. The MiG-23 was delivered to the Syrian Air Force in the 1970s and 1980s as part of the USSR's military aid to Middle ...

According to the extensive Stockholm International Peace Research Institute arms transfer database, Syrian acquisitions in this period included more T-62 tanks, newer MiG-23 Flogger fighters ...

Moscow announced on Wednesday that it had deployed an unknown number of its MiG-29SMTs to Syria for the first time. Russian defense firm Mikoyan started developing the MiG-29, codenamed "Fulcrum ...