Russian aircraft designer Tupolev began working on the PAK DA design in the early 2000s. T he US Air Force’s B-2 “Spirit” ...

Russia is developing its first stealth bomber in over four decades, the PAK-DA, designed for long-range, low-observable missions. With a subsonic flying wing structure and capacity for hypersonic ...

The PAK DA is Not Ready for Showtime The Russians have been lying for a few years about how far along they are with the Tu-PAK DA’s development. After all, the Russians were supposed to have a ...

PAK-DA will have a range of 9,300 miles, while the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has a combat range of 6,600 nautical miles. Russia has fewer aerial refueling tankers to support long-range missions ...

The PAK-DA, which literally means "prospective aviation complex for long-range aviation," is Russia's next generation long-range bomber project and it aims to one day replace the Tu-95 Bear and ...

As of the latest predictions, which were made in May 2018, the PAK-DA is expected to fly by 2025–2026 and enter serial production by 2028 or 2029.Per tradition, the PAK-DA will receive a “Tu ...

The PAK DA is slated to be powered by two turbofan engines supplied by the United Engine Corp. (UEC) Kuznetsov. The engines appear to be an upgraded version of the NK-32 used in the Tu-160.

This is significantly less than the speed of the Tu-160 strategic bomber that the new PAK DA is supposed to replace in Russia’s air force. The machine will use only intra-fuselage weapons in ...

The Tupolev PAK DA (or PAK-DA) is a proposed Russian next-generation strategic bomber and it is expected to have a 30-ton weapons payload, range of 6,740 nautical miles, first flight in 2021 and ...

The PAK-DA will not be hypersonic (even if it will probably carry hypersonic missiles) as opposed to the American X-51, Falcon HTV-2 and other hypersonic development programs on which U.S.’s ...

The PAK DA will carry AI-guided missiles with a range of up to 7,000 km. Such a missile can analyze the aerial and radio-radar situation and determine its direction, altitude and speed.