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San Diego Union-Tribune
April 30, 2008
MOSCOW – Russia showed off the first modernized Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber, which a senior air force official said yesterday would help Moscow match the nuclear capability of a potential enemy.
The supersonic jet with variable-sweep wings is the heaviest combat aircraft ever built. Along with the Tu-95 turbo-prop, it resumed round-the-clock patrols across the world last year on the order of President Vladimir Putin after a break of 15 years.
-- Reuters
April 30, 2008
MOSCOW – Russia showed off the first modernized Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber, which a senior air force official said yesterday would help Moscow match the nuclear capability of a potential enemy.
The supersonic jet with variable-sweep wings is the heaviest combat aircraft ever built. Along with the Tu-95 turbo-prop, it resumed round-the-clock patrols across the world last year on the order of President Vladimir Putin after a break of 15 years.
-- Reuters