Here’s What to Remember: 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 ...

The Russian Aerospace Forces conducted an 11-hour flight over the Arctic Ocean this week with a pair of Tupolev Tu-160 “White Swan” (NATO reporting name “Blackjack”) bombers. This marked ...

The Tu-160, known in NATO as Blackjack, ranks among the largest and ... making it a key component of Russia's nuclear arsenal. The Tu-160 bomber is equipped with variable-sweep wings, which ...

A Russian Su-24 plane (NATO code "Fencer") violated Swedish airspace near Gotland's southern tip on a Friday afternoon, according to the Swedish Armed Forces.... A Tupolev TU-22M3 strategic supersonic ...

Also worthy to note is that Russia has put its old Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack back into production ... including with its Su-24 Fencer fighter bomber). Besides crashes, a poor radar cross-section, and ...

In a significant military maneuver, two Russian Tu-160 strategic missile carriers have performed a patrol flight over the Arctic Ocean's neutral waters, as reported by the state-run RIA news agency.

How do russia's strategic aviation production capabilities look in practice, and why was the attack on the plant significant? Reports have already emerged that, on the night of January 20, 2025, ...

The Kazan Gorbunov Aircraft Plant, which manufactures and repairs Tu-22M and Tu-160M bombers, was reportedly struck alongside the Borisoglebskoye airfield. The plant has been under European Union ...

Norway scrambled two of its F-35 jets on February 4, after two Russian TU-95 Bear H Bomber Aircraft escorted by two Flanker-D flew close to NATO airspace in the High North. The Norwegian pilots ...

The intended arrival of two Russian Tupolev TU-160 “Blackjack” heavy strategic bombers in South Africa from 29 October to 2 November, as announced by the Department of Defence, raises serious ...

Iran is "not seeking nuclear weapons," President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed on February 6. Ha! No one believed him, because the UN says Iran is within weeks of producing enough enriched uranium for ...