Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: Classified Russian defense industry documents leaked by the international intelligence collective InformNapalm on November 4, 2025 reveal that both of...
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Summary and Key Points: Classified Russian defense industry documents leaked by the international intelligence collective InformNapalm on November 4, 2025 reveal that both of...
Russia's PAK DA was supposed to be the world's second stealth bomber — a subsonic B-2 rival capable of striking deep into European airspace....
Jack Buckby, a New York-based defense researcher and national security analyst, evaluates the strategic stagnation of the Tupolev PAK DA (Poslannik). While the U.S....
Summary and Key Points: Faced with persistent delays in the PAK DA stealth program, Russia has officially integrated two newly built Tu-160M strategic bombers...
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s PAK DA is pitched as a next-generation, subsonic stealth bomber meant to replace aging Tu-95s and complement upgraded...
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s PAK DA “Poslannik” is pitched as a flying-wing stealth bomber to replace Tu-95s and Tu-160s, carrying Kh-102 cruise...
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s decision to restart production of the Tu-160 as the modernized Tu-160M2 is more than a nostalgia move—it’s a...
Key Points and Summary – Russia loves to showcase “next-generation” systems like the Su-57 stealth fighter, T-14 Armata tank, MiG-35, and PAK DA bomber....
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s long-promised PAK DA stealth bomber is being marketed as Moscow’s ticket into the elite club of penetrating bomber...
The Tupolev Design Bureau was known for almost a century as the aircraft development entity in the former Soviet Union responsible for most of...