The Russian Aerospace Forces conducted an 11-hour flight over the Arctic Ocean this week with a pair of Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" (NATO reporting name “Blackjack”) bombers. This marked the ...
And the Russian Aerospace Forces have exactly the aircraft for such missions. The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack is a supersonic, ...
One of Russia’s most iconic bombers, the Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan is slated to receive a major redesign. A source in Russia’s domestic aircraft-building industry told state news outlet TASS ...
The Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bomber prototype ... which operational 16 Tu-160 planes do," he said. "The 804th plane will be subsequently upgraded to the Tu-160M2 variant," the source said.
The first newly-built Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying ... "It’s a highly upgraded plane based on the Tu-160 with new capabilities and functions. We do it two ways: we upgrade the ...
On December 10, two Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers, an Antonov An-124 military transport plane and an Ilyushin Il-62 long-range aircraft arrived at the Simon Bolivar International Airport which ...
The nature of the upgrade to the Tu-160M has not been detailed, but the type is once again making its presence felt in the ongoing Russia-U.S. standoff.
The intended arrival of two Russian Tupolev TU-160 “Blackjack” heavy strategic bombers in South Africa from 29 October to 2 ...