Russia’s defense aviation sector faces challenges as leadership changes at Tupolev follow missed targets and legal disputes over military contracts.
NATO air planners looking east during the Cold War faced a vast, intimidating armada of bombers and attack aircraft. With superior numbers, the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact nations ...
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Born in chains, forged in fire: The Tu-2’s redemption
Soviet bomber designed by Andrei Tupolev while imprisoned in Stalin’s secret gulag design bureau. With enemy bombers devastating Soviet cities and frontlines collapsing, the USSR needed a new kind of ...
Chapter 1: The great contest: you win only to lose -- Chapter 2: The bomber takes shape -- Chapter 3: The Tu-160 becomes reality: the trials programme -- Chapter 4: The Tu-160 in production -- Chapter ...
China and Russia have mounted a joint bomber incursion against Japan, resulting in the scrambling of Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) fighters. On 9 December, a pair of Russian Tupolev Tu-95 ...
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