But in August, Babiy carried out his final mission for his country after demonstrating a formidable ... led to the destruction of a Russian Tupolev TU-22M3 bomber and disabled two more aircraft ...

MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. Three crewmembers died after a Tu-22 bomber’s ejection system suddenly went off at an airfield near Kaluga in central Russia, the Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

After the dissolution of the USSR, Ukraine received 22 Tu-22M2 and 60 Tu-22M3 aircraft. Later, 19 were transferred to Russia, ...