Tu-16 Badger
Also known as Badger, Tu-16
bomber aircraft family by Tupolev
Key facts
- Type
- Strategic bomber
- National origin
- Soviet Union
- Manufacturer
- Voronezh Aircraft Production Association
- Designer
- Tupolev
- Status
- In service with China as Xi'an H-6
- Primary users
- People's Liberation Army Air Force Russian Air Force (historical), Egyptian Air Force (historical), Iraqi Air Force (historical)
- Number built
- 1,509
- Manufactured
- 1952–1962
- First flight
- 27 April 1952
- Variant
- Xi'an H-6
- Developed into
- Tupolev Tu-104 , Tupolev Tu-124 , Tupolev Tu-107
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