The Tu-22M can be counted amongst the prodigious ranks weapon systems misleadingly named for political reasons. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union developed a pointy-nosed Tu-22 supersonic jet bomber ...

The Tu-22 was introduced in 1962, becoming the Soviet Union’s first-ever supersonic bomber. The original Tu-22 was a dog—with taxing maintenance requirements and poor serviceability; additionally, the ...

The images, taken Monday, show the scorched remains of a Backfire in a revetment where examples of the type had been parked at least since Aug. 16, the last time high-resolution images of that base ...

Tu-22Ms drop bombs on Syria in 2015. The Russian air force has deployed Backfire bombers to its air base in Syria. The surprise deployment might be brief. Alternatively, it could mark the beginning of ...

A Russian Air Force bomber skidded off the runway in western Russia. On Sept. 14, 2017, a Russian Air Force Tu-22М3 RF-94233 / 20 “RED” suffered an incident when it overran the runway at Shaykovka ...

Ukrainian military destroys Russian Tu-22MZ bomber. The aircraft, which is a carrier of Kh-22 missiles, was struck with a drone, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi ...

LONDON—Russia’s Tupolev has rolled out an upgraded version of its Tu-22M ‘Backfire’ supersonic variable geometry strike aircraft. The upgraded aircraft, designated Tu-22M3M, features updated avionics, ...

As already shown by several other clips released by the Russian MoD, the Tu-22s mainly employ iron bombs from high-altitude: although dumb bombs can be dropped with a fair accuracy on soft targets, ...

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 ...

Tu-22Ms drop unguided bombs on Syria. Russian air force Tu-22M bombers flew into Ukrainian air space Thursday and dropped unguided bombs on Ukrainian troops in the besieged city of Mariupol, on the ...

A Russian Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber flies over Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2015. (RIA Novosti/AFP via Getty Images) MOSCOW — Eleven years ago, ...