Its progenitor was nuclear-capable, and Tupolev ensured that the Tu-160M had a versatile weapon capacity, meaning these birds could fly with both conventional and nuclear weapons in her bomb bays.

BANGALORE /India/, February 14. /TASS/. The first Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber built under the resumed production program has been named after the Soviet cosmonaut and the ...

Since then, the company has built on its pedigree with the Tu-95 strategic bomber ... in the 1990s and by the first decade of the 2000’s, Tupolev had begun work on the design.

MOSCOW, January 12. /TASS/. A completely new Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber nicknamed the ‘White Swan’ by Russian military pilots performed its debut flight, the press ...