When one thinks of the Soviet Union’s early Cold War-era heavy bombers, especially ones with the alphanumeric designation ...

including Tu-160 bombers renamed in Russia as Nikolai Kuznetsov (formerly with the Ukrainian tail number 10), Vasily Senko ...

Added Aug 14, 2015 at 10:18AM EDT by Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire. "BRRRT" is an onomatopoeic term describing the distinctive noise of the American ground-attack aircraft A-10 Thunderbolt II firing its ...

Russia has been deploying Tu-160 strategic ... Ukrainian tail number 10), Vasily Senko (11), Aleksandr Novikov (12), Vladimir Sudets (15), Aleksei Plokhov (16), Andrei Tupolev (18) and Igor ...

Nikolai Kuznetsov (formerly Ukraine's aircraft with serial number 10), Vasily Senko (11), Alexander Novikov (12), Vladimir Sudets (15), Alexei Plokhov (16), Andrey Tupolev (18), and Igor Sikorsky (22) ...

Soviet planes are named after their designers. Thus YAK is for Colonel General A. S. Yakolev, MIG is for the designing team of Mikoyan & Gurevich, TU for Andrei Tupolev.

A Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bomber. Russia has already lost four of ... compared to another that lasted 10 years (Afghanistan). The Mil Mi-8 AMTSh Terminator "62 Red" assault helicopter was ...

The United Kingdom’s ambitious Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) is entering a pivotal phase as its Flight Test Aircraft (FTA) ...

At the same time, the Waterkloof Air Base near Pretoria is probably the only air base in Africa with runways and support facilities able to accommodate Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers, such ...

The Soviet Union had its own military aircraft with an alcohol-related nickname: the Tupolev Tu-22, which was given the NATO ...

The narrator and administrator of the Paper Skies YouTube channel, in an episode titled “Why Soviet Pilots Called It ‘The Booze Carrier’: The Tupolev Tu-22 Story,” tells that amusing story ...