The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...
Most Russians immediately associate the name Tupolev with the workhorse civilian aircraft that carried millions of people around the USSR for decades until their recent retirement. But few know that ...
Following the Second World War, the Soviet Union was dependent on their Tupolev Tu-4, a copy of the American B-29 Superfortress long-range turboprop bomber. While both the American Superfortress and ...
The exclusive Russian aircraft Tu-134A-4 “Black Pearl” was intercepted over the Baltic Sea by Eurofighter Typhoons of the ...
The Tupolev's Tu-154 (search) remains the standard medium range airliner on domestic flights in Russia and other former Soviet states and to a lesser extent in eastern Europe and Iran (search). The Tu ...