An escalating competition of mid-air interceptions has been ongoing for the last several months over the Baltic Sea between ...

NATO fighter jets conducting air patrol missions in the Baltic States carried out three sorties over last week to detect and escort Russian aircraft violating flight rules. Source: Lithuania's ...

A Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft was tracked flying southward over the Sea of Japan off the western coast of two of Japan's main islands, Hokkaido and Honshu, the Japanese Defense Ministry ...

Today, Russia relies heavily on the Ilyushin IL-20M long-range airborne reconnaissance plane for these functions. But in the early 2000s, Moscow envisioned updating its airborne reconnaissance ...

The Russian defense minister says Israeli F-16s delivered strikes on Syria using the Russian Il-20 recon plane as cover MOSCOW, September 18. /TASS/. Russia will respond to actions on behalf of ...

PARIS, February 27. /TASS/. French Air Force jets escorted a Russian Il-20 plane near the Estonian border, the General Staff of the French Armed Forces said. "Mirage 2000-5 aircraft scrambled to ...

Wagner’s short-lived mutiny may prove more costly for Putin’s war in Ukraine than expected – they shot down one of only twelve Russian Ilyushin Il-22M airborne command posts. The weekend mutiny by ...

The Ilyushin IL-20 is a Soviet-era reconnaissance aircraft derived from the IL-18 turboprop airliner. Designed for signals intelligence (SIGINT), the Russian bird has the capability to intercept ...