Russia Completes Upgrade to Strategic Bomber

Russia has finished upgrading a Tu-160 strategic bomber, the first in a program to modernize the “Blackjack” aircraft, Vzlyet reported this week (see GSN, Jan. 20, 2004).

The plane arrived at the Kazan aircraft production association last year and will soon begin flight testing, according to Vzlyet (Defense and Security, Dec. 6).

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