The Tupolev Tu-160 and the Rockwell B-1 Lancer are two of the most iconic strategic bombers ever built, but their roles, ...

Russia’s Tu-160 “Blackjack,” a Soviet-era supersonic bomber comparable to the US B-1B Lancer, remains a pivotal, if limited, ...

Tu-160 Blackjack: The Supersonic Bomber Shaping Russia’s War Tactics. It is the general understanding that Russia’s military has underperformed during the war in Ukraine.

Russia expands the Kazan Aviation Plant to boost production of strategic bombers, investing €1 billion amid ongoing sanctions ...

Russia Advances Tu-160 Bomber Upgrade Despite Ukraine War Pressures. Since its invasion of Ukraine kicked off more than two years ago, Russia’s weapons output has greatly decreased.

The Tu-160 models are often compared to the U.S. Air Force's B-2 Spirit heavy strategic bomber or the B-1 Lancer, a supersonic variable sweep-wing heavy bomber.

India’s ambitious bid to lease between six to eight Russian-built Tupolev Tu-160M “White Swan” strategic bombers appears to ...

August 11, 2013: Russia has cancelled last year’s plan to increase its Tu-160 bomber force from 16 to 30 aircraft. That would have required keeping a very expensive production line going just so the ...

In an echo of the Cold War, Russia's first newly manufactured Tupolev Tu-160M (NATO designation Blackjack) supersonic nuclear heavy bomber completed its maiden flight on January 12, reaching a ...

The Tu-160 strategic bomber first flew in 1981. In 2015, the Defence Ministry announced the launch of a program to create a new, modified version, dubbed Tu-160M2, with plans to make 50 upgraded ...

The Tu-160 has a maximum speed of 1,379 miles per hour (the F-35’s top speed is around 1,200 miles per hour). The Tu-160 entered operational service in 1987 and production of the original ...

A Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber flies at the Alabino training ground in the Moscow Region. A report said that serial numbers of six Tu-160 heavy strategic bombers transferred from ...