Russia intends to commission four Tu-160M bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons by 2025. However, the Ukrainian portal ...

Capable of carrying nearly 100,000 lbs of munitions, including cruise missiles and nuclear weapons, the Tu-160 has been ...

SAMARA, March 21. /TASS/. The entire fleet of Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic strategic missile-carrying bombers with new weapons is expected to be renewed by 2030, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri ...

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 ...

Further development of the platform will enable it to use new types of weapons, including advanced ... The program to resume the production of Tu-160 planes, upgraded as Tu-160M, was set in ...

Russia has been deploying Tu-160 strategic bombers, which Ukraine transferred to Moscow in 1999 in exchange ... while the large and relatively slow bombers would have become easy targets for Russian ...

Russian and US officials have been involved in a spat over the landing in Venezuela of two Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The two Tu-160 bombers landed in Venezuela on Monday ...

The former Ukrainian Tu-160 with the tail number “12” renamed by Russia as the “Alexander Novikov ... while huge and relatively low-speed bombers would have become easy prey for Russian weapons in the ...