At the end of 2022, the Russian United Aircraft Corporation announced the completion of the production of modernized Tu-160M \u200b\u200bbombers.. In the future, tests should be carried out and the flights provided for in such cases after rolling out, but this did not happen.. The Ukrainian Defense Express explains:.

" For 2022, the Rashist UAC reported on the transfer of two Tu-160s made from Soviet " To designate such a specific process, the Russians have already come up with a word within the framework of their "

The Kremlin hopes to increase the fleet of its strategic aviation. But since the project to develop a promising bomber under the PAK DA index essentially failed, the RF Ministry of Defense decided to choose the Tu-160M \u200b\u200bas an " Moreover, in the period up to 1994, the Russian Air Force received six bombers of this type from the Kazan Aviation Plant, in the 2000s - two more. And so it may seem to the Kremlin that modern Russia is quite capable of continuing to produce such aircraft..

But the nuance is that now the Russians need to literally " Against this background, the Russian Federation had an option to use as an " What is the approximate number of "

In December 2022, an indication appeared in open sources that allowed us to assert that the Russians could also begin the completion of six Tu-22M3 bombers, work on which was suspended in 1993, because there was no money then. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Kazan Aviation Plant began negotiations on the completion of these aircraft in 2021. Two questions immediately prevented agreement - how to estimate the cost of aircraft and where to get engines for them.

The very story of the production of bombers from components at least 30 years old may look grotesque. But the Russians themselves may consider this a relatively quick and reliable way to replenish their strategic aviation fleet, where the average age of the " Especially in a situation where the number of actually combat-ready aircraft can be calculated at the level of 60% (in accordance with the assessment of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense) of the declared "