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A Ukrainian attack on the aircraft manufacturer Beriev’s facility in Taganrog in southwestern Russia overnight appears to have struck a unique laser testbed, the A-60.

Unique Russian A-60 Laser Testbed Jet Destroyed In Ukrainian Attack

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 25, 2025

New satellite imagery and an official video has revealed more about the scale of destruction and damage inflicted on Russian airfields in Ukraine’s unprecedented covert drone attacks last weekend. Today, the Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, which carried out the drone attacks, published previously unreleased drone footage showing the attacks underway.

Confirmed Losses Of Russian Aircraft Mount After Ukrainian Drone Assault

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Jun 4, 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery that TWZ has exclusively obtained from ICEYE points to multiple Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers having been damaged or destroyed at Belaya Air Base.

Latest On Russian Aircraft Loss Assessments From Ukrainian Drone Strikes

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 3, 2025

The future of Russia's bomber fleet after Ukraine's mass drone attack.

What Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack Means For Russia’s Bomber Force

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Jun 2, 2025

Bear bomber struck by Ukrainian drone.

Russian Strategic Bombers Destroyed In Unprecedented Wide-Scale Drone Attack (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 1, 2025

Very Close Encounter Between F-35 And Su-35 Caught On Cockpit Camera

Very Close Encounter Between F-35 And Su-35 Caught On Cockpit Camera

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 4, 2025

A strategically important fuel farm supplying Russia's Engels Air Base was struck by Ukrainian drones.

Ukraine Targets Strategic Bomber Fuel Supplies In Long-Range Strike On Russia

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 8, 2025

Chinese H-6-series aircraft have flown off the coast of Alaska for what appears to be the first time in an important show of force along with Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers.

Chinese H-6 Missile Carrier Jets Appear For The First Time Off Alaska (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 25, 2024

Tu-95 Engels Decoy

Tu-95 Decoys Are Being Painted On Russian Air Base’s Apron

By Stetson Payne

Posted on Sep 30, 2023

Russian Engels Bombers Tires

Russia Is Using Tires To Protect Its Bombers From Aerial Attack

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 4, 2023

Kursk Air Base Fire

Russian Airfield In Kursk Set Ablaze By Apparent Ukrainian Drone Strike

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 6, 2022

Surge In Russian Bombers At Air Base Not As Unusual As Reports Claim

Surge In Russian Bombers At Air Base Not As Unusual As Reports Claim

By Joseph Trevithick, Sim Tack

Posted on Dec 1, 2022

Tu-95 landing china

Russian, Chinese Bombers Land At Each Other’s Airfields After Joint Patrols

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 30, 2022

Russia long-range aviation bomber ukraine

Russia’s Secretive Long-Range Bomber Operations Against Ukraine

By Piotr Butowski

Posted on Sep 14, 2022

The Soviet Meteorit Mach-3 Cruise Missile Was A Colossal Cold War Oddity

The Soviet Meteorit Mach-3 Cruise Missile Was A Colossal Cold War Oddity

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 9, 2021

Watch A Russian Tu-95MS Bear Bomber Unleash Its Cold War-Era Tail Guns

Watch A Russian Tu-95MS Bear Bomber Unleash Its Cold War-Era Tail Guns

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Jul 9, 2021