The Russian Aerospace Forces have received the initial modernized United Aircraft Corp. Tupolev Tu-160M strategic bomber, the ...

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. by Brandon J. Weichert ...

One Soviet-era platform that has been significantly upgraded since the end of the Cold War is the nuclear-capable supersonic Tu-160 “Blackjack” bomber. This iconic warbird does not have the ...

The Tu-160 is also known by its NATO moniker Blackjack. The aircraft is part of Russia's heavy bomber fleet, able to carry nuclear weapons. A Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber flies at the ...

The Tu-160 bomber, known in NATO parlance as the 'Blackjack,' is capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Russia is deploying strategic bombers given to Moscow by Kyiv 25 years ago, according to a new ...

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, an ...

Undated picture shows a supersonic Russian TU-160 "Blackjack" strategic bombers at the airfield in Engels, outside Saratov. (Source: Getty Images) Russia's army is actively deploying Ukrainian ...

It was this plane that flew to Venezuela in 2018 to participate in exercises. Another plane is a Tu-160 bomber with the number "11", now "Vasyl Senko". One of the pilots, identified as Oleg Skytskyi, ...

Russia actively uses at least six Tu-160-type bombers that Ukraine gave to Russia in 1999 as a payment of gas debt, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) Schemes' investigation showed on Nov. 26.

and remains in service today as a bomber but has also been modified to serve as a platform for guided missiles. The Tupolev Tu-160, another variable-sweep wing supersonic bomber, was first introduced ...

This number reflects both internal needs, considering America's existing stealth bomber fleet, and external comparisons to adversaries like China's 180 H-6 bombers and Russia's 121 strategic bombers.