I just saw the comment on the MiG-29 Fulcrum, so I thought I'd put up another Soviet interceptor. sletch2003 made this Sukhoi Su-9, which was a supersonic interceptor. There was also a Su-9 interceptor built in 1946 (with a not-surprising similarity to the German Me-262) that was subsonic. From YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GQC-Ren0Tw Couldn't find anything on the Su-9 specifically and even in this video it doesn't show up, but it's still interesting to watch since it is a quick history of the Sukhoi company with some excellent footage (you can turn the sound off, it's just music). From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su-9 The Sukhoi Su-9 (NATO reporting name Fishpot) was a single-engine, all-weather, missile-armed interceptor aircraft developed by the Soviet Union. The Su-9 emerged from aerodynamic studies by TsAGI, the Soviet aerodynamic center, during the Korean War, which devised several optimum aerodynamic configurations for jet fighters. The design first flew in 1956 as the T-405 prototype. The Su-9 was developed at the same time as the Su-7 'Fitter', and both were first seen by the West at the Tushino Aviation Day on 24 June 1956, where the Su-9 was dubbed Fitter-B. It entered service in 1959.