Tu-160 Blackjack: The Supersonic Bomber Shaping Russia's War Tactics It is the general understanding that Russia’s military ...

Summary and Key Points: The Tu-160 Blackjack bomber, introduced in 1987, is the world’s fastest bomber, reaching Mach 2 with its powerful Kuznetsov NK-32 engines. Despite its speed, it suffered ...

The Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a Soviet and subsequently a Russian supersonic variable-sweep wing strategic missile-carrying bomber. Along with the Tu-95MS bombers, these aircraft ...

A Russian Aerospace Forces delegation is currently in South Africa on a goodwill visit, five years after a similar tour ...

The missile-carrying aircraft will be delivered to the Aerospace Force until the end of this year, according to the source MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. Russia’s upgraded Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO ...

Russia’s air force is considered one of the stronger fleets in the world, sporting advanced aircraft like the MiG-35 Fulcrum ...

The original engine on the Tu-160 — the NK-32 — is already a powerful ... it will reportedly be a much different aircraft. In 2015, Russian media reported that the new Blackjack would share ...

(Russian Aircraft Dominate the world’s fighter jets in vertical climb capabilities.) On the heavier side, Russia employs strategic bombers like the Tu-160 Blackjack and the Tu-95 Bear for long ...

The scheduled arrival of the Tupolev Tu-160 jets at Air Force Base Waterkloof on Oct. 29 “has been postponed,” the South African National Defense Force said in a brief statement Wednesday. The trip ...

Moscow has restarted production of the supersonic Tu-160 that was halted after the 1991 Soviet collapse, aiming to build ...

Moreover, the Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" (NATO reporting name ... that build the equipment used to manufacture the aircraft are likely out of business or have merged and been absorbed by other ...

In this image taken from a video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, on Dec. 9, 2020, a Russian Tu-160 strategic bomber fires a cruise missile at test targets, during a military ...