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 ...

For the first time in five years, Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons intercepted the rare aircraft, along with Su-30SM2s, as part of the Baltic Air ...

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 ...

“Backfire,” of course, is not the Russkies’ nickname for the warbird, but rather the NATO reporting name for the Tupolev Tu-22M (Туполев Ту-22М). The plane was developed in the 1960s by the Tupolev ...

(Reuters) - Polish President Lech Kaczynski was among 97 people killed when their Russian-built Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crashed in thick fog in Russia on Saturday. Here are some details about the ...

The Tupolev-154 is a Russian aircraft which was designed towards the end of the 1960’s. It has been one of the most widely used planes by the former Eastern Block countries. The three-engined plane ...

Omar N Bradley’s famous quip “Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy’s potential and fatally undermine ...