Regiment Ukrainian Air Force and Navy inherited a large number of Tu-22M2/M3 bombers. 60 Tu-22Ms (17 Tu-22M2 and 43 Tu-22M3) and 423 Kh-22 cruise missiles were scrapped under the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction agreement led by the US. The last bombers were scrapped in January 2006. 13th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division – Poltava Air Base, Poltava Oblast 185th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division – Stryi Air Base, Lviv Oblast 260th Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment Ukrainian Naval Aviation 2nd Guards Maritime Missile Aviation Division 5th Guards Maritime Missile Aviation Regiment – Veseloye, Crimea 943rd Maritime Missile Aviation Regiment – Oktiabrske, Crimea 33rd Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel Aviation VMF – Kulbakino Air Base, Mykolaiv 540th Instructor-Research Maritime Missile Aviation Regiment 1 Tu-22M3 in the Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation 1 Tu-22M0, 1 Tu-22M2 and 1 Tu-22M3 in the Ukraine State Aviation Museum. Accidents and incidents On 16 September 2017, a Tu-22M3 overran the runway at Shaykovka Air Base due to an aborted take off. The aircraft was written off. All four crew members survived without injury. On 22 January 2019, a Tu-22M3 crash-landed after a training flight while attempting to make a landing at the Olenya Air Base near the city of Olenegorsk in Russia's Murmansk region. Three of the four crew members died in the crash. A video shows the aircraft making a hard landing, which instantly ruptured the airframe and detached the forward cockpit area. On 23 March 2021, a Tu-22M3's ejection system malfunctioned, suddenly activating while still on the ground. The incident resulted in the deaths of three crew members and the hospitalization of a fourth. An official from Russia's Defense Ministry said that "due to the insufficient altitude for parachute opening, three crewmembers received fatal injuries upon landing." The aircraft was at Shaykovka Air Base undergoing engine start procedures. Specifications (Tu-22M3) See also References Citations Bibliography Donald, David, ed. "Tupolev Tu-22M". The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Barnes & Noble Books, 1997. . Frawley, Gerald. "Tupolev Tu-22M". The International Directory of Military Aircraft, 2002/2003. Aerospace Publications, 2002. . Gordon, Yefim; Rigmant, Vladimir; Komissarov, Dmitri (1999). Tupelov Tu-22 Blinder Tu-22M Backfire: Russia's Long Range Supersonic Bombers. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing. . Kandalov, Andrei; Duffy, Paul (1996). Tupolev – The Man and His Aircraft: The Man and His Aircraft. Society of Automotive Engineers. . Taylor, J.W.R. (ed.)