When Soviets faked a flyby of 28 Myasishchev M-4s to pretend they had a credible fleet of bombers, the US built thousands of B-47 and B-52 strategic bombers and hundreds of KC-135 Stratotankers for real – The Aviation Geek Club
During this event 10 M-4s were flown in view of the public: the formation then flew out of sight and joined up with eight additional bombers before turning around and then making another pass. The first post-Second World War modern Soviet heavy bomber was a ‘clone’ of the American B-29 which was designated Tu-4. Several …