Russia's PAK DA was supposed to be Moscow's stealth answer to the American B-21 — a flying-wing bomber built to haul nuclear weapons past the world's best air defenses. There's just one problem.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Further complicating matters for the PAK DA effort are new production Tu-160 Blackjacks, which are long-range supersonic bombers capable of carrying a whopping 88,000 ...

Key point: Little by little, some information about the bomber is coming out. As the United States proceeds with research and development on the B-21 “Raider” project, Russia is also developing its ...

The first full-size model of Russia’s future long-range bomber PAK DA, being developed for the Aerospace Force, has been created by the Tupolev company, a source in Russia’s defense-industrial complex ...

The PAK-DA is likely to feature many of the technologies that are expected to be incorporated into the new Tu-160M2 version. In a break from previous Russian and Soviet bombers, which focused on using ...

A mockup of a Soviet AN-602 hydrogen bomb (Tsar Bomb) is displayed at the exhibition devoted to the 70th anniversary of Russias nuclear industry in Moscow on Sept. 1, 2015. Getty Images Russia's ...

JSC Kuznetsov did not say what kind of engine unit will power the “aircraft of the future,” but in August 2014 it was rumoured to be an improved NC-32, which is currently used on Tu-160 strategic ...

The new PAK DA bomber will be the backbone of Russian strategic air power, but that might be a decade away. The first test version of the PAK DA bomber will take off in the early 2020s, and will be ...