The UAC said that the first new strategic missile carrier Tu-160M ​​will be handed over this year

According to him, the new aircraft is a deeply modernized version of the Tu-160 with new functionality and capabilities.

“This year we are handing over the first serial Tu-160M ​​aircraft in a new face, which will already replenish the long-range aviation fleet,” Slyusar quoted TASS as saying on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel.

Earlier, the UAC reported that another modernized Tu-160 strategic missile carrier took off.

In October, the Chinese portal Baijiahao wrote that the Tu-160 bomber "keeps the United States at bay."