On March 18, 1961, the Tupolev Tu-28 (Tu-128) interceptor made its first flight. The Soviet aircraft became the largest and ...

The Soviet Union had extraordinarily lengthy borders that were difficult to patrol against American nuclear bombers and spy planes. New ground-based surface-to-air missiles simply could not cover such ...

Key point: Moscow needed a really fast, long-range inceptor to stop American bombers in the event of nuclear war. One of its solutions was the very large Tu-128. The Soviet Union had extraordinarily ...