Modernized Tu-22M3M bomber makes first flights

During the Cold War, the ability of European NATO members to resist a Warsaw Pact attack depended on the speed and regularity with which reinforcements from the United States and Canada could arrive.

And as during the Second World War for Germany, the Soviet Union made significant efforts to try to cut this transatlantic lifeline. For this, the Soviet Navy applied the same strategy as Admiral Doenitz's Kriegsmarine, by employing a large fleet of submarines and long-range bombers, intended to harass and sink Allied convoys in the Atlantic.

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