Operation Spiderweb was a covert drone attack carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine deep inside Russia on 1 June 2025, during the Russo-Ukrainian War. The coordinated strikes targeted the Rus
A Tu-95 on fire at the Olenya airbase after being struck by drones
FPV drones placed in containers before being carried in trucks to launch points to attack Russian military airfields.
Burning Tu-95s at Olenya air base
The Tupolev Tu-22M is a Soviet nuclear capable, supersonic, variable-sweep wing, long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1960s. The bomber was rep
Operation Spiderweb
…be trained in preparation for the operation to teach it to correctly identify its target aircraft and to guide the drone to its vulnerable spots. The Tu-22M3s in the Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation were used for target recognition training. Ukrainian sources said that the agents who prepared…
A Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-22M3
A painting depicting the loading of Raduga Kh-15 missiles on a Tu-22M rotary launcher. The bomber depicted is an early Tu-22M2, with distinctive air intakes.
OBP-15T Targeting bombsight on Tupolev Tu-22M(0)
Older cockpit of Tupolev Tu-22M3 bomber, navigator's and weapon systems officer's panels