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2025-04-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in Irkutsk region

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#1 The Tupolev Tu-22M (Russian: Туполев Ту-22М; NATO reporting name: Backfire) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing, long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1960s.

Irkutsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers.

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#2 Russian nuclear bomber crashes and explodes near village

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