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 ...

One Soviet-era platform that has been significantly upgraded since the end of the Cold War is the nuclear-capable supersonic Tu-160 “Blackjack” bomber ... His next book, A Disaster of Our ...

The Tu-160 Blackjack The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack is a supersonic, variable-sweep-wing strategic bomber. Designed in the ...

The first newly-built Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber will ... The Tu-160M (codenamed Blackjack by NATO) is an upgraded version of the Soviet-designed Tu-160, dubbed the White ...

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 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a Soviet and subsequently a Russian supersonic variable-sweep wing strategic missile-carrying bomber. Along with the Tu-95MS bombers, these aircraft ...

The original engine on the Tu-160 — the NK-32 — is already a powerful ... In 2015, Russian media reported that the new Blackjack would share 60% of its components with the older version.