The Tu-22M3 is designed for strategic strikes, including the use of nuclear weapons, and can carry up to 24,000 kg of bombs. However, since the late 1990s, Russia has not produced new Tu-22M3s.

The downing of the Russian Tu-22M3 bomber indicates an expansion of Ukraine's defense capabilities, enabling them to reach further and threaten enemy strategic aviation. Olexandr Musiienko, ...

MOSCOW, December 1. /TASS/. Russia’s Tupolev Aircraft Company has delivered another repaired Tu-22M3 long-range missile-carrying bomber to the country’s Aerospace Force, the Tupolev press ...

The Russian military has deployed Tu-22M3 bombers and MiG-31K fighters carrying Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to the Russian-controlled Hmeymim airbase in Syria, Russia’s Defense Ministry ...

On August 15, a Tu-22M3 plane crashed in the Irkutsk Region during a planned sortie IRKUTSK, August 15. /TASS/. The fire at the Tu-22M3 bomber crash site has been promptly eliminated, Irkutsk ...

Ukrenergo announced outages in seven oblasts: Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kirovohrad. Earlier on Feb. 1, an air raid alert was declared across all Ukrainian ...

A fire broke out there. This plant produces and repairs Tu-160 strategic missile carriers and Tu-22M3M/Tu-22M3 long-range bombers. One of the drones allegedly hit an empty tank on the territory of the ...

A Russian drone attack hit Kharkiv’s Kholodnohirskyi district in the early hours on Feb. 1, killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring four others, Mayor Ihor Terekhov and regional governor Oleh ...

More than 10 Tu-22M3 bombers reportedly carried out airstrikes as part of Vostok 2018 last week.

A new division of Russian strategic bombers will soon begin conducting patrols over the Pacific Ocean.