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Summary and Key Points: Russia’s Tu-22M has been forced into a new reality in Ukraine: modern air defenses make “classic” bomber operations inside contested airspace increasingly dangerous. -That ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though the Russian military is generally satisfied with the Backfire-C’s core design, it is increasingly difficult for the Soviet-era bomber to operate effectively ...

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 ...