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.Moscow planned for a ...

The Tu-160 heavy bomber is one big warbird. It has been a stalwart for Russia since the 1980s, serving first the Soviet Union ...

The Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a Soviet and subsequently a Russian supersonic variable-sweep wing strategic missile-carrying bomber. Along with the Tu-95MS bombers, these aircraft ...

TASS/. Russia’s upgraded Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack) strategic missile-carrying bomber with Factory No. 0804 produced at the Kazan Aircraft Enterprise started flight trials ...

The nature of the upgrade to the Tu-160M has not been detailed, but the type is once again making its presence felt in the ongoing Russia-U.S. standoff.

The original engine on the Tu-160 — the NK-32 — is already a powerful ... In 2015, Russian media reported that the new Blackjack would share 60% of its components with the older version.

Ukraine said it hit Russia's Engels-2 air base, causing fires and explosions. Engels-2 is a key Russian base used for launching bomber attacks on Ukraine. While Ukraine attacked the military base ...