Satellite imagery, provided to Newsweek by Planet Labs, shows three aircraft on the main apron at the Anadyr airbase in Russia's Chukotka region close to Alaska on May 26, 2025.

In a strategic response to Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb” drone strike that damaged its bomber bases, Russia has begun dispersing its Tu-160 “Blackjack” strategic bombers to forward airfields in its ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets residents of the Chukotka autonomous okrug in Anadyr, Russia, on January 10, 2024. Putin is visiting Siberia and Far Eastern regions prior to the 2024 ...

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Understanding Russia’s Tu-160 Supersonic Bomber. Tu-160s, like many of the long-range, nuclear-capable strategic bombers that Russia possesses, have been used increasingly to conduct long-range ...

All three bombers are subsonic, vintage designs dating back to the 1960s or earlier. The Russian Tu-95MS, Chinese H-6, and American B-52H are all non-stealthy designs incapable of penetrating ...

The aircraft were believed to have taken off from Anadyr airfield in Chukotka, an eastern region of Russia, according to the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and ...

Satellite imagery, provided to Newsweek by Planet Labs, shows four aircraft on the main apron at the Anadyr airbase in Russia's Chukotka region close to Alaska on June 3, 2025.