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Key Points and Summary – Russia’s latest 11-hour Tu-160 “White Swan” patrol over the Arctic underscores how a bomber designed in the late Cold...
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Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Tu-160M “Blackjack” bomber, powered by the most powerful combat engines ever, is undergoing a major modernization (Tu-160M) at...
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Key Points and Summary – The Tupolev Tu-160 “Blackjack,” the world’s largest and fastest (Mach 2.05) military aircraft, was the Soviet Union’s rival to...
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Key Points and Summary – The Tu-160 “Blackjack” is the Soviet answer to America’s long-range bomber problem—a variable-sweep, Mach-2 class cruise-missile carrier built to...
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Key Points and Summary – Russia says it wants a new stealth bomber, the PAK DA, to complement or replace its aging Tu-95 “Bear”...
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Key Points and Summary – As Russia awaits its delayed PAK DA stealth bomber, it is heavily upgrading its Tu-160 “Blackjack,” a non-stealthy bomber...
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Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Tu-160 “White Swan” is a Cold War giant reborn: a Mach-2, variable-sweep-wing bomber built to sling long-range cruise...
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Key Point and Summary – PAK DA promises a stealth flying-wing bomber, but Russia’s wartime behavior says otherwise. Sanctions, thin supply chains, and engine/coatings...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s PAK DA was conceived to replace aging Tu-95 and complement or supplant Tu-160 bombers with a subsonic, stealthy...