>>/46960/
> Wonder how maneuverable it is.
Not much. It was designed for relatively long flights with high speed. In 60s speed and altitude were considered much more important for avoiding AA defenses (look at strategic bomber projects and their counters - interceptors of that era). Electronics also weren't too good to allow complex remote control anyway.
There is good site (in Russian though) about military planes, and it has pretty large articles about both Tu-141 and Tu-143:
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bpla/tu143.html
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bpla/tu141.html
> It seems like that one got out of control
It is very old, and I guess all components already gone through expiration date multiple times.
>>/46962/
> Ukraine
> 900,000 paramilitaries
That looks very exaggerated. Ukraine may have millions in reserves on paper (everyone from 18 to 65 with average health are able to serve in army), but it impossible to mobilize them in current situation.