Here’s What You Need to Remember: Despite the improvements to the airframe, the Myasishchev M-4’s capabilities were never increased enough to give it the range to hit targets of strategic value in the ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was doing everything it could to gain the upper hand over the United States. One area where it was attempting to do this was in the supersonic bomber ...

It was July 9th, 1961. Soviet air force day. Spectators were in awe as a completely new supersonic bomber flew over the crowd escorted by 2 MiG-21s. Sleek design powered by 4 engines with the maximum ...

The Lockheed U-2 is a spy plane so exemplary at its job that the US Air Force is still hesitant to get rid of it, even almost 70 years after its first flight. The Dragon Lady, as people often call it, ...

The Soviet bomber fleet grew to over 2,000 airframes, starting with piston-engine planes and then evolving to jet-powered craft. Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Myasishchev jet bomber caused ...

The M-4's primary weapon was expected to be the 2.9-megaton RDS-37 thermonuclear bomb, which was capable of destroying an entire city or industrial area. A Cold War child and the Tupolev Tu-95's ...

The Soviet Myasishchev M-4 heavy strategic bomber jet became the world's first intercontinental, nuclear-capable aircraft to enter service. A Cold War child and the Tupolev Tu-95's contemporary, the ...

The Myasishchev Experimental Machinery Building Plant plans to deliver the first M-101T Gzhel single-engined turboprop by July - seven months after the six-seat aircraft received Russian AP-23 type ...

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