Once the Tu-160M is produced more widely, it will have an outsized impact on the outcome of the Ukraine War, as Ukraine lacks ...

In 2015, Russia announced an ambitious upgrade and expansion of its Tu-160 bomber fleet, creating the Tu-160M2 variant. Plans included modernizing 16 existing aircraft and building 50 new bombers with ...

Moscow continues to rely on its Tu-95 and Tu-160 platforms in its offensive war against Ukraine. Ukraine’s drone barrages ...

This "will be the first combat aircraft capable of performing the same assignments, which operational 16 Tu-160 planes do," he said. "The 804th plane will be subsequently upgraded to the Tu-160M2 ...

Russia’s entire new fleet of Tu-160M2 bombers will be upgraded by 2030, the deputy Russian defense minister says. The Tu-160M2 is slated to make its debut flight in February 2018. Serial ...

A Russian Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber and Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire strategic bombers fly above the Kremlin during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 4, ...

Ukraine said a recent attack on Russia's Engels-2 air base destroyed 96 cruise missiles. Satellite images show blackened craters.

Ammunition and weapon storage bunkers were destroyed at Russia's Engels airbase, according to new satellite imagery. The airbase was targeted by Ukrainian drones last week on Thursday. A massive ...

MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. Two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers, an Antonov An-124 Ruslan heavy military transport plane and an Ilyushin Il-62 plane arrived in Venezuela, the Russian ...

The nature of the upgrade to the Tu-160M has not been detailed, but the type is once again making its presence felt in the ongoing Russia-U.S. standoff.