Meet the Tu-22M3: Russia’s Flying Missile Truck Is a Battlefield Terror

The Tu-22M3 Is Back: Russia’s Tu-22M3 ‘missile truck’ is relevant again. Known by its NATO moniker Backfire-C, the Tu-22M3 is flying out of Syria and patrolling the Mediterranean Sea in a manner that hearkens back to the Cold War. If you read Tom Clancy novels during the Soviet era, you may recogniz...