... agenda. Moreover, the programs to update them to enhance tactical capabilities, in 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 ...
... Tu-160M is gaining the capability to use Kh-555 missiles and also new missiles of the Kh-101 family, glide bombs and free-fall bombs. It can be confidently stated that the Tu-160M will remain in service until at least the end of the 2030s.
In addition to strategic bombers, the Long Range Aviation Command has Tu-22M3 long-range bombers. These bombers’ ability to strike strategic targets is severely limited by their lack of an inflight refuelling system – the price of a deal with the United States not to include them as strategic ...
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Nevertheless, Britain no longer deploys nuclear weapons for delivery by aircraft and like France has opted for SSBNs. After the “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 are as follows:
During a period of threat, strategic bombers can be secretly re-dispersed across multiple airfields, which increases their potential as a response weapon; there are ...
