Production of the “Blinder” ceased in 1969. As an interesting sidebar note, the Rikhter R-23 cannon made history in its own right as the only cannon fired in outer space; this event took place on ...

The fall of a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber, a platform often valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, marked a rare and symbolic blow against one of Moscow’s most important long-range strike ...

January 16, 2020: A Russian program to refurbish and modernize its Cold War era Tu (Tupelov)-22 "Backfire" heavy bombers is running into more problems. The Russian Air Force wanted to design a new ...

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 ...

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MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. Three crewmembers died after a Tu-22 bomber’s ejection system suddenly went off at an airfield near Kaluga in central Russia, the Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday. "Today ...