Saturday January 6, 2018 15:01 MSK
Russia’s upgraded Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bomber will
perform its first test flight in January 2018, ahead of scheduled February,
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. This reported by TASS.
"The Tupolev Design Bureau actually promises to take
the plane into the air earlier - at the end of January," the deputy prime
minister wrote on his Facebook page.
At a working meeting with President Vladimir Putin in
November, Rogozin said the maiden flight of the strategic bomber was planned
for February.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported earlier that the
serial production of Tu-160M2 bombers should begin in 2023. The Russian
Aerospace Force intends to purchase no less than 50 such aircraft.
The Tu-160 is the Soviet strategic missile carrier armed
with cruise missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. Along with the Tu-95MS
missile carrier, the Tu-160 makes part of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces
along with the ground-based missile systems and submarines.
Original post: ruaviation.com
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