On April 27, 1952, the Soviet Union's formidable Tupolev Tu-16 Badger made its first flight, ushering in a new era of ...

A Russian Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber and Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire strategic bombers fly above the Kremlin during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 4, ...

Vladimir Putin’s top envoy to Indonesia said on Monday that Russia views Australia as a “non-friendly state” that sanctions ...

On April 4, Russia launched a ballistic missile attack ... killing one civilian and wounding six others. A Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed on April 2 in the country’s eastern ...

What is known about the aircraft The Tu-22M (NATO classification — Backfire) is a supersonic long-range strategic bomber-missile carrier with variable wing geometry. Developed by the Tupolev Design ...

Canadian company Bombardier Aviation has revealed its Global 8000, a swanky private plane that flies at Mach 0.94 (720mph).

By July 4, 1994, they had toppled the genocidal regime ... On October 19, 1986, Samora Machel, Mozambique’s revolutionary president, died when his Tupolev Tu-134 crashed near Mbuzini, South Africa. A ...

In October 1958, the De Havilland Comet 4 and the Boeing 707 ushered in the jet age for countries outside of the Soviet bloc (the USSR had introduced the Tupolev TU-104 as its first jet airliner in ...