The White Swan has been employed in some of the longest flights ever conducted by the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The Tu-160M’s role in Russia’s nuclear triad (which includes submarine-launched ballistic missiles and land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, ICBMs) is pivotal. The White Swan’s ...
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 ...
"Two Tu-160 strategic missile-carrying bombers performed a scheduled flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Arctic Ocean, the Barents and White Seas that lasted about 13 hours ...
What’s more, the combination of its original variable-sweep wing design coupled with its NK-32-02 engines, the Tu-160M White Swans now have a wildly extended strike range and maneuverability ...