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The Tupolev Tu-4 (Russian: Туполев Ту-4; NATO reporting name: Bull) is a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid-1960s. The aircraft was a copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress , having been reverse-engineered from seized aircraft that had made emergency landings in ...
Tu-70 "Cart": prototype airliner variant of the Tu-4, 1946; Tu-71: prototype short-range bomber developed from the Tu-2, 1946; Tu-72: medium bomber project, 1940s; Tu-73: three-engined development of the Tu-18, 1947; Tu-74 (also known as Tu-73R): proposed high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Tu-73
Tupolev Tu-76 military transport version of the Tu-4; also known as Tu-4D; Tupolev Tu-79 Tu-4 with M-49TK engines; Tupolev Tu-80 long-range bomber derivative of the Tu-4, precursor of the Tu-85; Tupolev Tu-81 initial prototype of the Tu-14; Tupolev Tu-82 experimental swept-wing jet bomber; Tupolev Tu-85 long-range heavy bomber derivative of the ...
However, the bomber regiments remained. Units stationed at Belaya 1945-1994 included: 1225 TBAP (1225th Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Tupolev Tu-4 aircraft in 1956-1958 and upgrading to Tupolev Tu-16 in 1958 and Tupolev Tu-16K in 1961. It began flying the Tupolev Tu-22M2 starting in 1982 and retained this aircraft through at least the ...
The Tupolev Tu-160 (Russian: Туполев Ту-160 «Белый лебедь», romanized: Bely Lebed, lit. 'White Swan'; [1] NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing nuclear-capable heavy strategic bomber and airborne missile platform designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
Russian President Vladimir Putin flew on a modernised Tu-160M nuclear-capable strategic bomber on Thursday, in a move likely to be seen in the West as a pointed reminder of Moscow's nuclear ...
Even before the first flights of the Tu-16 and Tu-20/Tu-95, Tupolev was working on supersonic bombers, culminating in the unsuccessful Tu-98. Although that aircraft never entered service, it became the basis for the prototype Tu-102 (later developed into the Tu-28 interceptor ) and the Tu-105 , which evolved into the supersonic Tu-22 bomber in ...
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