{"id":645857,"date":"2020-02-10T09:36:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=645857"},"modified":"2020-02-10T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T13:36:50","slug":"russia-to-arm-tu-160-strategic-bombers-with-hypersonic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=645857","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Arm Tu-160 Strategic Bombers with Hypersonic Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russia\u2019s top military brass plans to arm Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic strategic bombers with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe possibility of deploying Kinzhal missiles on Tu-160 aircraft is being considered. The work on this option is due to be completed this year,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

The source did not specify, however, whether operational or upgraded Tu-160 bombers would be armed with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n

TASS has no official confirmation of this information yet.<\/p>\n

Another source in the Russian defense industry told TASS in July 2018 that there were plans to test Kinzhal hypersonic missile systems aboard a Tu-22M3 long-range bomber.<\/p>\n

The Tu-160 is a multimode supersonic strategic missile-carrying bomber with a variable sweep wing. Russia\u2019s top brass announced its decision in 2015 to restart the production of the Tu-160 strategic bomber in its upgraded Tu-160M version at the Kazan Aircraft Enterprise.<\/p>\n

On February 2, an upgraded Tu-160M prototype derived from an operational Tu-160 bomber took to the skies for the first time. The upgraded bomber features advanced flight and navigation equipment, communications, a new radar and electronic countermeasures system. The bomber is capable of carrying up to 12 strategic cruise missiles on two multi-position rotating launchers inside the fuselage.
\nKinzhal hypersonic missile system<\/p>\n

The Kinzhal is the latest Russia airborne system that consists of a MiG-31K aircraft as a delivery vehicle and a hypersonic missile. According to media reports, a Kinzhal missile is the airborne version of the Iskander tactical missile system. Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled the Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic missile system in his State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly in March 2018. Currently, a squadron of MiG-31K aircraft armed with hypersonic missiles is on experimental combat duty in Russia\u2019s Southern Military District.<\/p>\n


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