Three crewmembers died after a Tu-22 bomber’s ejection system suddenly ... "Today, during planned preparations of a Tu-22M3 aircraft on the ground for a flight at an airfield in the Kaluga ...

MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. The upgrade of operational Tupolev Tu-22M3 long-range missile-carrying bombers will begin in 2018, Tupolev Aircraft Company CEO Alexander Konyukhov told TASS on Friday.

On 12 March, they escorted two Russian Su-27 fighters, two supersonic Tu-22 bombers and one Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft. Later that same day, NATO planes were again dispatched to identify two Tu-22 ...