The United State's current long-range strategic bomber inventory consists of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, the Rockwell B-1 Lancer, and the Northrup Grumman B-2 Spirit. Unlike the Soviet-era Tupolev ...

Tu-160 Blackjack Profile: Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union competed against each other to develop new military technologies. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the field of ...

Russia has scattered its most valuable warplanes to a remote airbase in the far east of the country, after a surprise Ukrainian drone attack devastated its strategic bomber fleet last Sunday. Two ...

Russia recently announced a plan to resume production of the nuclear-capable Tu-160 stealth bomber that has a payload capacity of more than 20 tons. On Tuesday, Russian state-run news agency TASS ...

One of Russia’s most iconic bombers, the Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan is slated to receive a major redesign. A source in Russia’s domestic aircraft-building industry told state news outlet TASS on Monday ...

Russia has tested a thermobaric bomb said to be the most powerful of its kind in the world. ORT First Channel television showed a Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber dropping its payload over a testing ...

-With a top speed of Mach 2.05 and intercontinental range, the "White Swan" is a formidable standoff weapons platform. -It can carry a massive 88,000-pound payload of both nuclear and conventional ...

Chapter 1: The great contest: you win only to lose -- Chapter 2: The bomber takes shape -- Chapter 3: The Tu-160 becomes reality: the trials programme -- Chapter 4: The Tu-160 in production -- Chapter ...

A pair of Tupolev Tu-160 bombers (NATO codename Blackjack) made the type's first-ever transatlantic flight, and first-ever landing outside the former Soviet Union's territory, with a 13-hour non-stop ...

United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has handed over the first Tupolev Tu-160 ‘Blackjack’ strategic bomber to be fitted with new engines, Rostec announced on 10 March. The first Tu-160 bomber fitted with ...

Russia will on Wednesday land the world’s biggest military aircraft in South Africa, the Tupolev Tu-160 “Blackjack” bomber, in a rare display of cooperation between the defense forces of the two ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that a modernization program for the Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic heavy strategic bomber has been finalized, and a passenger version of the plane may be in the ...