Soltsy-2 airbase, which is home to Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire swing-wing bombers, was hit by a drone strike yesterday. Images of black smoke billowing from the base further solidified those reports, but ...

Finnish, Swedish, and Dutch fighter aircraft were scrambled on Tuesday Dec. 17, 2024 to identify and monitor Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea, which turned out to be carrying inert supersonic ...

There never was a worst time for two of the world’s most potent militaries to play games with one another. With Europe still uncertain about what will happen in Ukraine, and with American and Russian ...

Ultimately the Tu-22 was succeeded by the Tu-22M. The Tu-22M is also supersonic, but is a variable-sweep aircraft that has superior handling characteristics, is more capable, and has friendlier pilot ...

In a rare admission of operational details, military intelligence in Kyiv has described how a unit walked hundreds of miles in enemy territory to help destroy Russian aircraft that had been bombing ...