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Russia's Tu-160 Blackjack Bomber Is a Flying Bomb Truck Like No Other
The Tu-160 Blackjack The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack is a supersonic, variable-sweep-wing strategic bomber. Designed in the ...
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Russia uses Tu-160 bombers handed over by Ukraine in 1999 – investigation
Russia has been deploying Tu-160 strategic bombers, which Ukraine transferred to Moscow in 1999 in exchange for clearing debts for Russian gas supplies. Source: investigation by Schemes ...
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Russia’s New Tu-160 White Swan Bomber is a Killer
Russia’s military leadership has approved of a plan to upgrade the Tu-160 Blackjack fleet. What’s more, it continues enhancing the lethality of its weapons platforms, meaning that when the ...
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Russia’s upgraded Tu-160 strategic bomber to make debut flight in February 2018
This "will be the first combat aircraft capable of performing the same assignments, which operational 16 Tu-160 planes do," he said. "The 804th plane will be subsequently upgraded to the Tu-160M2 ...
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Russia’s newly-built Tu-160M strategic bomber named after first woman in space
"The first built Tu-160M has been named in honor of Valentina Tereshkova," he said. Tu-160 bombers traditionally get names of outstanding people in long-range aviation. In 2022, Tereshkova turned 85.