The Il-28 bomber saw extensive wartime service across the globe. Deployed by over 20 nations, it fought in the Biafran and ...

In August 1941, a massive Soviet TB-3 bomber crossed enemy territory under cover of darkness. To observers below, it appeared slow and vulnerable. What they could not see was what it carried. Mounted ...

Chapter 1: The great contest: you win only to lose -- Chapter 2: The bomber takes shape -- Chapter 3: The Tu-160 becomes reality: the trials programme -- Chapter 4: The Tu-160 in production -- Chapter ...

NATO air planners looking east during the Cold War faced a vast, intimidating armada of bombers and attack aircraft. With superior numbers, the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact nations ...