Russia continues to keep its strategic bombers—including the Tu-95 and Tu-160,close to the front lines. Given their long-range missile capabilities, many wonder why these bombers aren’t relocated to ...

The U.S.-backed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) project reported on Tuesday that serial numbers of six Tu-160 heavy strategic bombers transferred from Ukraine to Russia a quarter of a ...

Russia has an estimated fleet of 67 strategic bombers, including 52 Tu-95s, known as Bear-H by NATO, and 15 Tu-160s, known as Blackjacks, of which about 58 are thought to be deployed, according to ...

Russian bombers finally can do what U.S. bombers long have been able to—strike targets on land with precision ... where the Tu-160 is located as part of the 121st Heavy Bomber Aviation ...

The Tupolev Tu-22M is a sweep-wing twin-engine supersonic bomber. Russia has used the heavy planes in the all-out war, which began in February 2022, to launch waves of cruise missile strikes ...

A surprise Ukrainian drone attack that targeted Russian air bases hosting nuclear-capable strategic bombers was unprecedented in its scope and sophistication, and dealt a heavy blow to the Russian ...

The official reclassification of the Tu-22’s updated models from tactical bombers to heavy, nuclear-capable strategic bomber could lead to a new round of accusations concerning Russia’s ...

These strategic heavy bombers were originally designed during the Cold War, with four Samara NK-32 afterburning turbofan engines that each produce as much as 55,000 pounds of thrust with afterburners.

Military personnel gather under a Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-160 "Blackjack", a supersonic variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber, is parked on the tarmac at the Waterkloof Air force Base in ...

(Reuters) -Russia sent Tu-22M3 long-range bomber planes on a flight over the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, the defence ministry said, in the first such mission since Ukraine carried out a stunning June ...

Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Wednesday show seven destroyed bombers on the tarmac at a Russian air base in eastern Siberia, one of the targets Ukraine said it struck with ...