WATCH: Russian Bomber Nosedives Into Massive Explosion During Training Exercise

A Russian strategic bomber crashed during a training exercise in Siberia on Monday, with dramatic video appearing to show the aircraft plunging nose-first into a wooded area before erupting into a massive fireball. The aircraft, a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber known by NATO as the “Backfire,” went down in Russia’s Irkutsk region near the village of ...