The Bear, the Swan and the Crouching Dragon

... conventional strikes on an intercontinental scale. This largely Soviet legacy is now entering a phase of updating. Meanwhile China is making increasingly loud claims about its own ambitions. At the beginning of the 1930s the USSR possessed one of the ... ... RDS-3 bomb was dropped from a Tu-4A on the Semipalatinsk testing ground. The USSR went on to create its own intercontinental strategic bombers – the turbo-prop Tu-95 and the jet-powered M-4 and 3M. In addition to strategic bombers, the country produced ...