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Tu-22M3 The later Tu-22M3 (NATO: Backfire-C), which first flew in 1977, was introduced into operation in 1983 [83] and officially entered service in 1989, [citation needed] had new NK-25 engines with substantially more power, wedge-shaped intake ramps similar to the MiG-25, wings with greater maximum sweep and a recontoured nose housing a new ...
Tu-22P Blinder-E electronic jammers were given the task of covering the withdrawal route back to the Soviet Union. Radar-jamming Tu-22PD aircraft covered Tu-22M3 Backfire-C bombers operating from the Mary-2 airfield in the Turkmen SSR on missions in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border.
In a regular update on Ukraine, British military intelligence said "a Tu-22M3 BACKFIRE medium bomber of Russia's Long Range Aviation (LRA) was highly likely destroyed at Soltsy-2 Air base in ...
A subordinate regiment, 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Regiment, with the Tu-22M3 Backfire bomber is based at the Shaykovka air base. [14] On 14 January 2023 an aircraft from the 52nd Heavy Bomber Regiment, participating in the Russo-Ukrainian War fired a Kh-22 missile that hit a block of flats in Dnipro , killing and injuring numerous civilians ...
The Tupolev Tu-22M ‘Backfire’ strategic bomber was designed in the mid-1960s to overcome the powerful air defenses around U.S. aircraft carriers and NATO military bases. To increase the ...
The Raduga Kh-15 or RKV-15 (Russian: Х-15; NATO: AS-16 "Kickback"; GRAU:) is a Russian hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-ground missile carried by the Tupolev Tu-22M and other bombers. Originally developed as a standoff nuclear air-to-ground missile similar to the U.S. Air Force's AGM-69 SRAM, versions with conventional warheads have been ...
Tupolev Tu-22M3 "Troika" Backfire-C supersonic maritime strike bomber: variable-sweep wing, twinjet, turbofan: Tupolev: 268 30 August 1969 (as Tu-22M) March 1989 Tupolev Tu-160 "Beliy Lebed" Blackjack supersonic strategic bomber: variable-sweep wing, four engines, turbofan: Tupolev: 27 serial and 8 prototypes 19 December 1981 30 December 2005 ...
A fire broke out; the attack killed at least 20 people and injured at least 56. The anti-ship missiles were launched from Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers that took off from the Shaykovka air base. [citation needed] On 7 October 2022 there were reports of a kamikaze drone attack on the air base, destroying two Tu-22M3 bombers. [9]