While serving as President, Jimmy Carter chose a replacement for the B-52 bomber. He rejected one concept outright, but it ...

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

One Soviet-era platform that has been significantly upgraded since the end of the Cold War is the nuclear-capable supersonic Tu-160 “Blackjack” bomber. This iconic warbird does not have the ...

The Tu-160 ‘White Swan’ supersonic bomber is the carrier of both conventional and nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The missiles are placed into two internal rotary launchers with six missiles each.

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Russia’s top military brass plans to arm Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic strategic bombers with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, a source in the defense industry told TASS on ...

Advanced cruise missiles and gravity bombs allow for missions that are variegated and equally lethal to Russia’s enemies.

Russia has been deploying Tu-160 strategic bombers, which Ukraine transferred to Moscow in 1999 in exchange for clearing debts for Russian gas supplies. Source: investigation by Schemes ...

Belgian Air Force F-16s scrambled to intercept two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers, accompanied by two Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighters over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday.