USA vs RUSSIA: Every Military Aircraft Compared

The two largest air forces of the Cold War, still facing each other today. Stealth fighters, flying wings and the biggest fleet of military aircraft on Earth on one side; the fastest interceptor in service, the heaviest supersonic bomber ever built and fighters made for extreme maneuvers on the other. This is every major military aircraft of the United States and Russia in 2026, side by side: fighters, the interceptor, strike and attack aircraft, carrier aviation, bombers, radar planes, spy planes, jammers, submarine hunters, tankers, transports, the gunship, the doomsday planes, the tiltrotor, trainers and drones. 0:00 Intro 0:37 The Size 1:16 A Long Rivalry 2:05 The Stealth Fighter 4:07 The Heavy Fighter 5:12 The Light Fighter 5:52 The Interceptor 6:51 The Cockpit 7:44 The Engines 8:21 The Missiles 9:13 The Strike Aircraft 9:44 The Attack Aircraft 10:34 The Carrier Aircraft 11:31 The Bombers 13:18 The Eyes in the Sky 14:07 Listening and Watching 14:46 Jamming 15:22 Hunting Submarines 16:01 The Tankers 16:59 The Transports 18:02 The Gunship 18:35 The Doomsday Planes 19:11 The Tiltrotor 19:38 The Trainers 20:06 The Drones 21:02 How They Are Built 21:36 The Nicknames 22:28 The Display Teams 23:07 The Records 23:43 The Balance Figures are approximate published values. Fleet sizes follow world air force directories and include helicopters. Footage (exercises, parades and tests only; clips edited): U.S. footage: DVIDS / U.S. Department of Defense (public domain). The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. Russian footage via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (mil.ru) and Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru).