Tupolev Tu-22m: Soviet/Russian Swing-Wing Heavy Bomber

by Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov

In the late 1960s, the patriarch of Soviet aircraft design, Andrey Tupolev, offered the Soviet air force a supersonic bomber to replace the 1950s-vintage Tu-22 Blinder with a less capable--but cheaper--alternative to the Sukhoi design bureau's proposed T-4 strategic bomber. Tupolev did not offer it as an "all-new" aircraft but, instead, passed it off as a "massive upgrade" of the Blinder. Thus was born the Tu-22M, Tupolev's first aircraft with variable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764363549
• ISBN13: 9780764363542
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 11.1"