... the B-3 had been adopted, what the expert community is calling the project.
U.S. Air Force / Ben Bloker
Alexander Yermakov:
Strategic Aviation En Route to Updating
Naturally, the publication of any pictures of the LRS-B is out of the question. The Northrop ... ... 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 ...
... Ukraine was to speak in Canada’s parliament. American bombers also periodically take part in high-profile acts
[8]
, but in the USA it is still the fleet that is mainly used for showing the flag.
The unknown beast
Until recently the future of strategic aviation in Russia was fairly clear: major overhaul and modernisation of the existing planes, a new bomber in the first half of the 2020s, built by Tupolev under the PAK DA (Future Aviation Complex for Long Range Aviation) programme and designed to replace the Tu-95MS and the Tu-160
[9]
.
During 2015, however, the situation has changed significantly. In July Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov
described
plans to resume serial ...
....
wikipedia.org
The supersonic B-58 Hustler was retired in
January 1970
Rocket and missile engineering dealt a heavy blow to strategic aviation. It appeared that the emergence of intercontinental ballistic missiles made bombers no longer necessary. Contrary ... ... “disgrace” of strategic aircraft in the 1970s-1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union began to establish new aviation complexes due to a number of unique features of strategic bombers compared to missile systems.
Some of these features ...
