Tupolev Tu-22MThe only English language book in print on this active duty Russian supersonic bomber. In the late 1960s, the patriarch of Soviet aircraft design, Andrey Tupolev, offered the Soviet air force a supersonic bomber to replace the 1950s vintage Tu 22 Blinder with a less capablebut cheaperalternative to the Sukhoi design bureau's proposed T 4 strategic bomber. Tupolev did not offer it as an "all new" aircraft but, instead, passed it off as a "massive