Putin’s nuke bomber CRASHES after takeoff in Russia in another crippling blow as vid shows $40m jet plunge in fireball

Sun UK ^ | 8/15/2024 | Ellie Doughty Will Stewart

[marcusmaximus]

THIS is the moment Vladimir Putin's $40 million nuclear-capable Tu-22 bomber jet crashed in Siberia today in a humiliating blow to the despot.

The valuable Russian aircraft came down in a fiery blaze after takeoff, marking another embarrassment for Vlad as Ukraine continues its successful invasion of Russia.

Witnesses said the Tu-22M3 nuclear bomber - planes used by Putin as a key part of his nuclear arsenal - broke apart in the sky before crashing amid fierce explosions.

Dramatic footage showed the moment an enormous fireball filled the sky as the aircraft came down.

The crew of four ejected safely before the high-tech plane hit the ground and exploded in Irkutsk, Siberia, according to reports.

The plane crashed near the Cheryomkhovsky district of the Irkutsk region, some 3,300 miles east of Moscow.

No clear explanation was given for the fiery crash, but Russian state media kept to the line of a "technical malfunction".

A smarting Putin, struggling to fend off a Ukrainian border incursion in Kursk, this week deployed two Tu-22 planes to threaten the West in a nuclear drill over the Baltic Sea.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Yeah! One more step closer to nuclear war! Yeah!

[Who is John Galt?]

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ Yeah! One more step closer to nuclear war! Yeah!”

Just because a commie plane crashed?

[Farmerbob]

Well the nuke didn’t go off so either the safeties work or the nuke doesn’t.

[null and void]

Video Here

[fruser1]

I didn’t know the russian military contracted boeing.

[pfflier]

Putin's $40 million nuclear-capable Tu-22 bomber jet crashed in Siberia today in a humiliating blow to the despot.

That might be a little over dramatic. It was a plane crash, the rest isn't terribly relevant.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Got me. LOL!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Got me. LOL!

[mass55th]

"Just because a commie plane crashed?"

That plane was sent by the Biden-Harris White Hut?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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[PLMerite]

“...broke apart in the sky before crashing amid fierce explosions.”

Poor maintenance, structural fatigue, sabotage, unsafe ordnance handling, hostile action, etc. Many possibilities.

[zeestephen]

Great idea, World.

Keep poking Vladimir Putin with a sharp stick and derisively laughing.

You are betting your standard of living, and your lives, that Putin will not go nuclear.

I will pass on that bet.

[C210N]

Poor maintenance, structural fatigue, sabotage, unsafe ordnance handling, hostile action, MSM FAKE or HYPERBOLE 'NEWS', etc. Many possibilities.

[wastedyears]

They’re telling the truth this time, honest!

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“Putin’s nuke bomber”

I assume that Ms. Ellie Doughty Will Stewart means that the bomber is capable of carrying nuclear bombs but cannot possibly be pushed by a nuclear engine, huh?

[wastedyears]

The Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore, commies don’t run Russia.

[ASOC]

The first Tu-22М3 prototype performed its maiden flight on June 20, 1977. Since 1978, the aircraft was put into mass production. Tu-22М3 in its final configuration entered service in March 1989. In total, about 500 Tu-22M aircraft of various modifications were built at the Kazan Aircraft Production Association.

it was an OLD airplane that crashed.
No money for Maintenace, or that funding was diverted, and you wind up with a hole in the ground.

[marcusmaximus]

It was one of the strategic bombers used for mass cruise missile attacks on Ukraine in the past.