Tupolev Tu-160
Country: Soviet UnionManufacturer: Tupolev
BomberSoviet Union1987In service
The Tupolev Tu-160 is a Soviet four-engine strategic bomber with variable-sweep wings. It carries cruise missiles internally and remains in Russian service, with modernisation programmes updating propulsion, avionics and weapons systems.
Wing span varies with sweep, and modernised specifications are not assigned to the original baseline. Missile range is not aircraft combat radius.
Bomber // Tu-160ID — tu-160
Soviet Union · Tupolev
Illustration: Tupolev Tu-160 variable-sweep-wing bomber
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Identity
- Designation
- Tupolev Tu-160
- Manufacturer
- Tupolev
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Category
- Bomber
- Figures refer to
- Tu-160
Production & service
- Introduced
- 1987
- Status
- In service
- Units produced
- —
Specifications
- MTOW
- —
- Crew
- 4
- Armament
- —
- Sensors
- —
- Engines
- —
- Hardpoints
- —
- Empty weight
- —
- Max speed
- —
- Combat radius
- —
- Length / wingspan / height
- — / — / —
- Service ceiling
- —
Historical profile
The Tu-160 first flew in 1981 and entered service in 1987. Later upgrades and renewed production continued under the Tu-160M designation; the original family introduction date is retained here.
Variants
Tu-160Tu-160M
Related systems
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