The Tu-160 heavy bomber is one big warbird. It has been a stalwart for Russia since the 1980s, serving first the Soviet Union ...

UKRAINE has struck a key Russian airbase housing nuke bombers with footage showing a huge explosion rising into the sky. A ...

The Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bomber prototype ... which operational 16 Tu-160 planes do," he said. "The 804th plane will be subsequently upgraded to the Tu-160M2 variant," the source said.

The base hosts Russia’s Tupolev Tu-160 long range nuclear bombers and is more than 400 miles from the nearest Ukrainian territory. Moscow sources claimed its forces downed more than 130 Ukrainian ...

Ukraine struck a major Russian strategic bomber airfield on Thursday with drones, triggering a huge blast and fire about 700 ...

The drone attack hit the Soviet-era base in Engels, which hosts Russia’s Tupolev Tu-160 nuclear-capable heavy strategic bombers, colloquially known as White Swans. Verified videos showed a large ...

A massive explosion rocked Russia’s Engels airbase after a daring Ukrainian drone strike deep inside Russian territory. The airfield, home to nuclear-capable Tupolev Tu-160 bombers, went up in flames, ...

Roman Busargin, the governor of Saratov, stated that a Ukrainian drone strike had hit the city of Engels, setting an airfield ...

The nature of the upgrade to the Tu-160M has not been detailed, but the type is once again making its presence felt in the ongoing Russia-U.S. standoff.

Russian authorities have declared a local state of emergency in the Saratov region after a Ukrainian drone left an airfield at a military base engulfed in flames.