Russia’s fleet of Tu-214Rs is very small—and shows no sign of increasing. But the bird’s advanced electronics and optical ...

UKRAINE has struck a key Russian airbase housing nuke bombers with footage showing a huge explosion rising into the sky. A ...

The last time the plane took to skies was in 2010. Since the Tupolev no longer had any financial value and was only generating costs, the aviation department was looking for a way to dispose of it ...

TASS/. The Tupolev Aircraft Company (part of the United Aircraft Corporation) confirmed on Wednesday it was testing the second prototype of the heavily upgraded Tu-22M3M long-range missile ...

The drone attack hit the Soviet-era base in Engels, which hosts Russia’s Tupolev Tu-160 nuclear-capable heavy strategic bombers, colloquially known as White Swans. Verified videos showed a large ...

And besides, the Russian air force bomber base at Engels, near the city of Saratov in southern Russia, isn’t a power plant or ...

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MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport officially adopted the name of the legendary chief designer of the USSR’s aircraft industry, Andrei Tupolev. The ceremony was ...

Russian authorities have declared a local state of emergency in the Saratov region after a Ukrainian drone left an airfield ...

But in the early 2000s, Moscow envisioned updating its airborne reconnaissance capabilities with the Tupolev Tu-214R. Today, the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) operates only three of these planes ...