However, President Vladimir Putin has showcased an upgraded version of the Tu-160 Blackjack bomber, nicknamed the "White Swan." -This modernized Soviet-era supersonic strategic bomber is touted to ...

BANGALORE /India/, February 14. /TASS/. The first Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber built under the resumed production program has been named after the Soviet cosmonaut and the ...

The Tu-160M (NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is an upgraded version of the Tu-160 bomber developed in the Soviet era and dubbed "the White Swan" among pilots. Along with the Tu-95MS bombers ...

Information spread on the network that the russians allegedly used a super-powerful aerial bomb ODAB-9000 (mass-detonating ...

The explosive is so heavy that it would have to be deployed from a Russian strategic bomber such as the Tu-160, Tu-95 or Tu-22M3. None of these jets were recorded as being in the area in recent days.

The original engine on the Tu-160 — the NK-32 — is already a powerful engine, providing 55,000 lbs of thrust. The B-1B Lancer, on the other hand, only generates about 31,000 pounds of thrust.

Russia's Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers are capable of carrying ... A Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber, left, and an Ilyushin Il-78 tanker aircraft fly over the Kremlin during rehearsals ...

Colonel Vitalii Sarantsev, spokesperson for the Kharkiv Operational and Tactical Group, has refuted information about the use ...