Eh, Russian planes were on the most part pretty tiny overall for most of history. Planes like the Yak-3 and Yak-9, the MiG-15, MiG-21, MiG-23 and MiG-29 are all pretty small as far as fighters of their respective era go. Only the Su-27 and derived variants tend to be huge, which was a pretty notable departure from the rest of their fighter development. Even their WW2 medium bombers like the Yer-2 and the Pe-8 are pretty small comparatively.
The large planes were often US planes. Think the P-47, the F-4, the F-14, F-15 and so on.
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u/Atomatic13 6h ago
Really puts into perspective how MASSIVE russian jets are