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 ...
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 ...