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 ...

Russia proposes supplying India with its advanced Tu-160M strategic bombers, enhancing India's air power and long-range ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nature of the upgrade to the Tu-160M has not been detailed, but the type is once again making its presence felt in the ongoing Russia-U.S. standoff.

Another document about the safety of the nuclear weapons in Ukraine details how Georgiy Mamedov, the then Russian deputy ...

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 ...

The missile carriers were supposed to arrive at the Waterkloof Airbase in Pretoria in the framework of a friendly visit on October 29 and stay there until November 1, the South African Defense Forces ...

A UK Ministry of Defense spokesperson told ITV "at no point did the Russian aircraft enter UK territorial airspace." However, some of the Tu-160 bombers carry long-range nuclear capable cruise ...