The final nail in the coffin for the Tupolev Tu-144 came on Sunday, June 3, 1973, during the Paris Air Show when, while ...

The Russian-built Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger plane ever to fly ... whether it was sending a rocket into space or putting a man on the moon. As such, the supersonic race ...

Russia’s air force is considered one of the stronger fleets in the world, sporting advanced aircraft like the MiG-35 Fulcrum ...

The first Tupolev Tu-160M strategic ... program has been named after the Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Chief Yury Slyusar ...

The Tu-134 was originally a Soviet passenger aircraft developed by the Tupolev design bureau and was one of the most common civilian jets employed by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries during ...

NORAD, which last month also reported two Russian Ilyushin Il-38 patrol aircraft and two Russian Tupolev Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft close to Alaska has said ...

At some stages of the route, the Russian aircraft were escorted ... of using international air space and avoid violating other countries’ national borders. The Tupolev-160 (NATO’s reporting ...

At the time he was a 19-year-old apprentice engineer, working for British Aeroplane Company (BAC) in the design office for a supersonic, passenger-carrying aircraft. An aircraft that would ...

A Russian Tu-134 military transport aircraft was set on fire at a military ... The Kyiv Independent could not verify the report. The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined airliner produced in the ...

These jets are multirole fighters that can hit speeds over Mach 2. (Russian Aircraft Dominate the world’s fighter jets in vertical climb capabilities.) On the heavier side, Russia employs ...

TOKYO--Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday. Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters that the ...