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The Soviet Tu-144 Was the World's First Supersonic Airliner
The Soviet Tu-144 Was the World's First Supersonic Airliner

4 Apr 2023, 09:10 UTC · By: Henry Kelsall / The Tupolev Tu-144 was the Soviet's answer to Concorde, but a crash at the 1973 Paris Airshow was just one problem that befell the troubled airliner

 
Tupolev Tu-116: A Soviet Luxury VIP Airliner That Started Life as a Nuclear Bomber
Tupolev Tu-116: A Soviet Luxury VIP Airliner That Started Life as a Nuclear Bomber

21 Feb 2023, 00:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Seriously? An airliner fashioned out of the same airframe as a nuclear-capable bomber? That's the most Soviet thing we've heard in a long time

 
Tupolev-95V, the Soviet Bomber That Dropped the Biggest Nuclear Bomb of All Time
Tupolev-95V, the Soviet Bomber That Dropped the Biggest Nuclear Bomb of All Time

30 Oct 2022, 22:06 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / On October 30, 1961, the most devastating atomic weapon exploded in Europe's furthermost archipelago, 3,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb of 1945

 
Russia Tests World's Largest Supersonic Nuclear Bomber: Tu-160 Piotr Deinekin
Russia Tests World's Largest Supersonic Nuclear Bomber: Tu-160 Piotr Deinekin

26 Jan 2018, 12:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Tu-160 strategic nuclear bomber gets new engines, new radars and new avionics. The prototype began testing in Russia last week

 
Tupolev Tu-144 "Concordski" Discovered Hidden in Tatarstan
Tupolev Tu-144 "Concordski" Discovered Hidden in Tatarstan

10 Sep 2014, 15:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It's not often that we get to write about an airplane, but very few modern birds have an interesting story to tell. The Tupolev Tu-144 is one amazing machine, built, like so many cool things, d...