The Tupolev Tu-160, which NATO calls ‘Blackjack’, was introduced in 1987 and by now remains one of the most feared combat aircraft in the world, with the maximum takeoff weight of around 275 tons. The nuclear-capable bomber is equipped with variable-sweep wings, which it wedges against t...
The Tu-160 bomber, or "Blackjack" as it's called by NATO, has a crew of four (pilot, co-pilot, bombardier, defensive systems officer) and can carry up to 88,200 pounds of ordnance. Here, a Tu-160 flies over Moscow's Red Square during a 2015 Victory Day parade. Russia's White S...
The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) is to showcase its modernised strategic bombers at the Victory Day flypast over Moscow for the first time on 9 May. Rehearsals on 13 April saw an upgraded Tupolev TU-160M1 'Blackjack' bomber and three upgraded Tu-95MS 'Bear' bombers with external weapons...
Britain's Ministry of Defence released images it said were taken earlier this month of two Russian Tu-160 bombers -- known as Blackjacks by NATO forces -- as they entered UK airspace near the Outer Hebrides islands off Scotland's northwest coast. ...
Fourth, with respect to strategic bombers, Russia is renewing production of the existing Tu-160 Blackjack. A new design PAK DA will require “remarkable patience” at a minimum and, with a long-term recession looming, it probably won’t happen at all. ...
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In September 2023, satellite imagery of Engels-2 airbase, located in Saratov Oblast, some 400 km southeast of Moscow and roughly 700 km from the border with Ukraine, exposed a certain number of Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-95 Bear and Tu-160 Blackjack bombers with their w...
Re: Russian Strategic Bombers Now in the Air Find Out More > This is very possible.. Most analyst wonder why Putin did not do a US type (Shock and awe from the air) .. The reason is he wants Ukraine in tack as much as possible..the Ukranian girls welcome the young tank crews ...
Re: Russian Strategic Bombers Now in the Air Putin maybe doing a Trump fear type tactic.. Like Trump flew B2's over Korea and made a big deal to Rocket man! Worked there.. maybe Putin play'in a Trump card,, cOOl! Quoting: YEA Eoreris Remember the only time trumper had Xi over and...
Byline: by Tony Rennell, ADDITIONAL reporting by Will Stewart in Moscow.Daily Mail (London)