The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...

If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, the Soviet Tupolev TU-4 should have made Western Nations tickled pink. But quite the opposite was the case. In fact, the impression on American Air ...

This is the second time since February 2020 the rare Russian aircraft has been intercepted. The twin-engine jet is a derivative of the Soviet-era Tu-134 narrow-body airliner that first flew in July ...