The aircraft requires a crew of four. Although the Russian Aerospace Forces only operate a small number of Tu-160 strategic bombers (about 20), they are sufficient for the requirements of the ...

Russia’s Tu-160M supersonic bomber, an upgrade of the original so-called “White Swan,” mighty Soviet-era Tu-160 long-range strategic bomber, has just been given the greenlight by Moscow for ...

Languages: English, Russian. You can get in touch with Yevgeny by emailing [email protected] A Russian Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber aircraft crashed in Siberia, killing the pilot, the Russian ...

were pure bombers but subsequent variants, like the Tu-95K and Tu-95MS were adapted to carry advanced weaponry, including the Kh-20 air-to-surface missile and later the Kh-55 and Kh-101/102 cruise ...

It may have been the second Tu-22M3 to be destroyed after drones targeted another of the bombers in August 2023 while it was at an air base in the Novgorod Oblast. Ukraine is now claiming that a ...

The Tu-22M3M bombers will get advanced precision weapons ... It performed its debut flight on June 20, 1977 and went into service in 1989. It develops a maximum speed of 2,000 km/h, has a service ...

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, says that a Ukrainian drone caused the crash of the Tu-22M3 strategic bomber. The aircraft, capable of launching cruise ...

Read also Tu-160M2, Tu-22M3M bombers to get communications suite from ... The flight proceeded at an altitude of 6,000 meters and lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes," the UAC said in a statement.