Russia’s latest 11-hour Tu-160 “White Swan” patrol over the Arctic underscores how a bomber designed in the late Cold War ...

The Tu-160 heavy bomber is one big warbird. It has been a stalwart for Russia since the 1980s, serving first the Soviet Union, and later the Russian air force. Known as the White Swan, this is the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The M-model Tu-160 features new engines and avionics and a metallic canopy treatment that reduces the type’s radar-reflectivity. But the Tu-160 isn’t stealthy, even ...

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 of ...