October 12, 2000: russia has adopted for service 11 strategic bombers with nuclear weapon delivery capacity
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October 12, 2000: russia has adopted for service 11 strategic bombers with nuclear weapon delivery capacity

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October 12, 2000: russia has adopted for service 11 strategic bombers with nuclear weapon delivery capacity, eight tu-160 strategic bombers (one of them in picture) and three tu-95s were received by russia from ukraine as a partial payment for ukrainian debt for the gas supplied by russia, the aircraft have nuclear weapon delivery capacity and are being adopted for service with the russian armed forces, the planes were recently involved in exercises over vast areas of volga district and the caspian sea and black sea, the crews have successfully launched standard cruise missiles and drilled on in-flight refueling.

Date

01 févr. 2000

Crédit

Photo12/Sovfoto/UIG

Notre référence

UMG20B06_038

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

8,0Mo (1,2Mo) / 17,3cm x 11,5cm / 2048 x 1358 (300dpi)

Mots clés

TU 160 jet bomber

Restrictions

Utilisation éditoriale uniquement.

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