TU-22M3 and TU-160's
Discussion
hidetheelephants said:
Blaster72 said:
I'd never heard of the TU-160 until a few weeks back but its an amazing bit of kit.
Capable of carrying 15 Nuclear Cruise missiles while travelling supersonic and having a normal range of over 12,000km. It really is a masterpiece.
The B1 has very similar performance; at those ranges it's non-tactical, flying at high altitude and low power settings. The only remarkable thing is that they bothered to build them at all; it doesn't offer any major abilities over the Backfire and the cost to build and operate has been crippling.Capable of carrying 15 Nuclear Cruise missiles while travelling supersonic and having a normal range of over 12,000km. It really is a masterpiece.
Amazing they're flying though given the story, being seized by Ukraine following the breakup of soviet russia who couldn't afford to actually do anything with them.
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