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 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 video circulating on Russian Telegram channels, verified by Reuters, captured a massive explosion at the airfield, damaging nearby cottages. Russia's defense ministry stated that air defenses ...

The attack comes just one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to a proposal from Russia to pause strikes ...

The Engels base, situated roughly 435 miles from the front lines in Ukraine, has been used as a launch site for Russian long-range bombers.

At the time of the explosion, three Tu-95MS and two Tu-160s strategic bombers were at the Engels ... Engels-2 is a major base for Russia's Tu-95MS and Tu-160 aircraft, and warehouses nearby ...

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

MOSCOW >> Ukraine struck a major Russian strategic bomber airfield on Thursday with drones, triggering a huge blast and fire about 700 km (435 miles) from the front lines of the war, Russian and ...

Ukraine launched a major long-range strike on a key military airbase deep inside Russia that houses nuclear-capable bombers.