7 Secretive Aircraft of the Soviet Air Force

  The Soviet aeronautic industry is far ahead of the West, though due to the shroud of secrecy surrounding the designs, this is not known to many.

The Yak-4 was a contemporary of the British de Havilland Mosquito. The bomber variant of the British aircraft entirely outclasses the Russian airplane.

As for the M-4 Molot, of which it's claimed "Though there were truly only 18 aircraft in prototype stage, the hoax of circling the same 18 planes fooled the unsuspecting US," I think it wasn't a good plan to parade the small force as if it were much larger, prompting the deployment of the B-52 fleet, which really could deliver an intercontinental strike, and practiced it daily.

Finally, I'm going to pick on the Tu-160. I won't go into the details (long and boring), but reading this bit about a long patrol, http://mn.ru/russia/20100610/187867766.html, realize that Western aircraft have been doing this continually for decades, while the Soviets (and now Russians) lost the skill to disuse. It's pretty disingenuous to claim that the Soviets were far ahead.

Of course, it's linkbait, what with the frequent flyer rewards push at the bottom, but it's frustratingly at odds with reality. I prefer my linkbait to be bland puff pieces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan#Ekranoplan_wing

In fact, some of the description from the article is taken straight from that wikipedia page.

But yes, the article is a lot of hype on top of a skeleton of truth.