The Frogfoot (SU-25) is an armored beast of an aircraft with an armored cockpit and multiple redundant systems. The Russian air force has upgraded dozens of Su-25s to the latest SM standard, which ...
Key point: The Su-25 is the Russian version of the deadly American A-10 Warthog. Here is how it helps Russian ground forces win their battles. The Su-25 Frogfoot, known as the Grach or “Rook” by ...
Details remain limited at this time, but a Russian Su-25 Frogfoot close air support jet crashed into the Sea of Azov near Yeysk earlier today. The Russian city of Yeysk is a coastal town in the ...
A senior Russian official is suggesting that Moscow should develop a single-seat derivative of the Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback bomber to replace the Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot close air support aircraft. However ...
The Middle Eastern cauldron has been made all the more infernal by the involvement of the Russian air force. If you've been following the news, you may have seen a strange war bird vaguely resembling ...
This may be the point of view of the target…. Shot by photographer Anton Balakchiev during the recent Thracian Thunder 2016 exercise, this short but rather interesting video shows a Bulgarian Air ...
A recent video shows a Russian Lancet loitering munition — a type of ‘kamikaze’ drone with an integral warhead that can loiter in a target area, before attacking its chosen target by flying into it ...
It shows at least 12 Su-25 Frogfoot attack planes lined-up on the secondary runway at al-Assad airbase near Latakia, the same airfield hosting the four Russian Air Force Su-30SM multirole combat ...
The Su-25 Frogfoot, a Soviet-era close air support aircraft, has been a staple of Russian and Eastern European military aviation for decades. Designed in the 1970s, the Frogfoot was intended to ...
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Russia's Invincible Jet... The Bulletproof Su-25 Frogfoot

The Su 25 was engineered as a rugged close air support aircraft, built around heavy armor, redundant systems, separated engines, and field repairability. Its titanium armored cockpit, survivability ...
The war in Ukraine has been brutal for fighter pilots and helicopter crews whose job it is to provide close air support to front-line ground troops. The sheer density of surface-to-air missiles and ...
Syrian rebels shot down a Russian Su-25 Groch, or "Rook" in Russian, over Idlib province on Saturday. The pilot safely ejected, but was killed on the ground after getting into a gunfight with the ...