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When the upcoming B-21 “Raider” reaches its production phase, it will represent an even more lethal threat to American adversaries. However, other nations (namely Russia and China) are simultaneously ...
A suicide car bombing in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 14 soldiers and injured 25 people including civilians.
Russia is developing its first stealth bomber in over four decades, the PAK-DA, designed for long-range, low-observable missions. With a subsonic flying wing structure and capacity for hypersonic ...
The third bomber is Russia’s PAK-DA bomber. The bomber has been under development since at least 2000, and would replace Moscow’s Cold War-era fleet of Tupolev Tu-22M “Backfire,” Tu-95 ...
The PAK-DA program began in 2009, when Moscow held a competition to design a new long-range bomber. Tupolev, a Moscow-based aircraft design bureau with roots going back to before World War II, won ...
Russia’s much-delayed PAK-DA strategic bomber—the country’s first large combat jet in decades—may finally be on track for a 2024 test flight. Still, despite more than a decade of intermittent progress ...
PAK-DA, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology, is designed to leap ahead of the B-2 and compete directly with the upcoming B-21 Raider bomber. The bomber will be Russia’s first flying ...
The PAK DA will receive an active, electronically scanned array radar based on the one used by the Sukhoi Su-57 fighter. The bomber will also have an optoelectronic sight from an unknown manufacturer.
The PAK DA is intended to serve as a long-range, low observable strategic bomber for the Russian Air Force, but within the broad definitions of these terms lies a vast spectrum of actual combat ...
Russia has reportedly begun construction of its next-generation PAK DA stealth bomber as part of an apparent strategic effort to usher in a new era of stealth bombing technology. Moscow hopes to ...