Images posted on social media and analysed by BBC Verify show a Tupolev Tu-22M on fire at Soltsy-2 airbase, south of St Petersburg. Moscow said that a drone was hit by small-arms fire but managed ...

The loss of each Tu-22M3 bomber is very painful for the Russian Federation. Currently, the enemy has around 30 of these aircraft, according to Defense Express. Russia is not producing Tu-22M ...

RAF Typhoons from 140 EAW and Swedish Air Force Gripens scrambled this afternoon, for a third time in 48hrs, to intercept 2x Russian Tu-22M Backfire and 2x Su-30SM Flanker H flying close to @NATO ...

Releasing video footage of Tu-22M operations (it is unclear if all footage is from today's sortie), the attached statement via the state-owned Zvezda news network reveals that the sortie lasted in ...