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Russia’s Tu-95MS Bear Bomber Has an Unfixable Problem

The Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear,” a Cold War icon and the world’s only frontline turboprop bomber, is facing an existential crisis in ...
In 2015. the situation in Syria started to change. Russian military intervention strenghtened the position of Assad's ...
NATO jets intercepted a unique Russian Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft—nicknamed “Black Pearl” by Western security experts—over the ...
Ukraine targeted the Borisoglebsk airfield in Russia's Voronezh Oblast overnight on July 5, damaging a warehouse with guided bombs, aircraft, and other military assets, Ukraine's General Staff ...
The Swedish Air Force identified multiple Tu-22M3 bombers operating with Sukhoi fighter escorts over the Baltic Sea on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. At least ...
Four Russian military planes were detected flying near the coast of Alaska on Tuesday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said, marking the latest in a string of sightings in recent months.
Russia entered Estonia's airspace on Friday and stayed there for about 12 minutes — an incursion that an official in Estonia called "unprecedentedly brazen." The incursion was by three Russian fighter ...
This story has been corrected. American aircraft intercepted a Russian surveillance flight Tuesday off the coast of Alaska for the fourth time in the past week, defense officials said Wednesday. An ...
BBC Verify has used flight tracking data to identify four US military aircraft flying near Venezuela last night. These ...