... particular, by equipping B-52Hs with new communication systems, are underway.
Meanwhile, Russia offers no fresh news on the Perspective Aviation Complex for Long-Range Aviation (PAK DA), while the program for the resumed production of updated Tu-160 strategic bombers continues to be a prime center of attention. As such, speaking at a special meeting of the interdepartmental working group on October 17, 2015, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov
urged
the rigid observation of the terms of ...
... planes were demonstrated in a fly-past at Tushino, and the Soviet nuclear shield was really created on 18 October 1951, when an RDS-3 bomb was dropped from a Tu-4A on the Semipalatinsk testing ground. The USSR went on to create its own intercontinental strategic bombers – the turbo-prop Tu-95 and the jet-powered M-4 and 3M. In addition to strategic bombers, the country produced an enormous quantity of long-range bombers – planes in the Tu-16 and Tu-22 families. Apart from striking targets ...
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Strategic bombers – the oldest and least common component of the nuclear triad – are only in service in the armed forces of the United States and Russia. In the mid-2010s, both countries simultaneously launched programs to update their Cold ...
