A unique plan once aimed to transform the powerful TU-160 nuclear bomber into an ultra-fast private jet for VIPs. The video explains how designers hoped to adapt its supersonic speed and massive range ...

Key Points and Summary - Russia's Tu-160 "Blackjack," a Soviet-era supersonic bomber comparable to the US B-1B Lancer, remains a pivotal, if limited, asset for the Kremlin. -The Tu-160, featuring four ...

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 ...

The Tu-160–while it looks similar to the B-1B–is a very different aircraft. The Soviet Union designed the Blackjack primarily as a means to deliver a nuclear strike during World War Three. However, ...

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 ...

Alexi Tupolev, 76, a Russian aircraft designer who helped build the first Soviet supersonic passenger jet and the Soviet space shuttle, died Saturday in Moscow. The son of aircraft pioneer Andrei ...

KAZAN, February 12. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in support of development of a domestic supersonic passenger jet. "We should return now to ultra-high-speed, ultrasonic passenger ...

Two Tu-160s have flown over the Baltic region. NATO, Finnish and Swedish fighters shadowed the Russian Blackjacks which were escorted by Su-35s. Two Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-160 Blackjacks carried ...

The new Cold War between the United States and Russia has apparently played out in an unlikely place: the U.S.-Mexico border. A man claiming to be a former employee of a major Russian defense ...

This is the second time since February 2020 the rare Russian aircraft has been intercepted. The twin-engine jet is a derivative of the Soviet-era Tu-134 narrow-body airliner that first flew in July ...