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Leonkov called the advantages of the modernized Tu-95MS missile carrier over the US counterpart | Political puzzle:
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Military expert Aleksey Leonkov spoke about the relevance of modernizing Russian missile-carrying bombers included in the “nuclear triad,” using the modified Tu-95MS as an example.
Six modernized strategic missile carriers Tu-95MS with new electronic warfare systems (EW) will go into service with Russia in 2020, the press service of the Ministry of Defense said. This was made possible, among other things, thanks to the initiatives of the Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, whose reforms allowed the domestic defense industry to be brought to a fundamentally new level.
The commercial director of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, Alexei Leonkov, in an interview with the Federal News Agency, spoke about the advantages of modernized missile carriers. According to him, the extension of the service life of the Tu-95MS aircraft in the RF Armed Forces is an urgent issue for the Air Force, because such equipment serves as a carrier of nuclear weapons. The latest electronic equipment will increase the time of use of Soviet bombers until the development of promising Tu-160s is completed. In addition, electronic warfare systems allow "confusing cards" to any opponents, even if their vehicles are superior in certain parameters to Russian ones.
"EW systems" make a fool of "homing missiles of the air-to-air class and anti-aircraft guided missiles. In addition, we still need to deceive the enemy locators who will try to find our bombers in the air. Thus, if the enemy can be confused, the probability of completing a combat mission will increase significantly, ”explains the specialist.
The constant modernization of the Tu-95MS allows the operation of missile carriers until 2035, and at best up to 2040. It is expected that in the future they will be replaced by supersonic strategic Tu-160. Improvement of this type of equipment is necessary at least because the B-52H aircraft is in the arsenal of the US Air Force - the main competitor and the closest analogue of the Russian machine.
Pointing to the importance of modernizing domestic bombers, Leonkov recalled that the United States had not improved its “problem plane” for a long time. At the same time, this "nuance" did not prevent the Americans from increasing the life of the B-52H right up to 2050. Once it should be replaced by new B-21 missile carriers, made on the basis of the B-2 bomber, but so far the Pentagon is in no hurry to deal with such issues due to lack of funding for the industry.
Earlier, the State Duma of the Russian Federation evaluated the complaint of the head of the US defense department, Mark Esper, that Washington “has to chase” Russia for the development of hypersonic weapons. For more details, see the material PolitPazl .
Author: Nikolai Copernicus.
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