The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history.

Following the Second World War, the Soviet Union was dependent on their Tupolev Tu-4, a copy of the American B-29 Superfortress long-range turboprop bomber. While both the American Superfortress ...

Tupolev produced reconnaissance drones like the Tu-143 during the Cold War, but they were of a type only barely legible as drones today. Lacking pilots and live video feeds, the drones flew preset ...

The Tu-134 was designed in the 1960s by Tupolev, the same Russian aerospace company responsible for the supersonic passenger jet Tu-144. The creation of this plane was ordered by the Soviet leader ...