On the timing of the flight of the first bomber Tu-160m of the new building reported with reference to his source of TASS. According to the agency's interlocutor, with a high probability, the plane will rise to the sky in the fourth quarter of the 2021th.
The source added that the second prototype of a strategic bomber undergoes ground tests at the S. P. Gorbunov's flight test complex of the Kazan aircraft transport.
Recall that in November of this year, the Tu-160m strategic bomber flight was flying, which received new NK-32-02 engines. The first flight of a deeply upgraded strategic bomber Tu-160 was fulfilled in early February of this year.
Earlier, information appeared that the Tu-160m of the new building will receive the Tu-160m2 index. The total number of cars produced from scratch, according to a contract concluded in 2018, should be ten bombers.
According to the data presented earlier, the Tu-160m received new flight-navigation equipment, an onboard complex of communication, a control system, a radar station and a complex of radio-electronic combat. It is assumed that the renewed machine will have significantly higher, in comparison with the basic version, combat potential.
The battle baptism of Tu-160 is considered to be the Russian military operation in Syria. It is known that aircraft used winged rockets X-555 and X-101. In the future, aviation complex can get a new rocket of super-large range, known as the X-DB.
Experts see upgraded Tu-160 something like a "transitional link" on the way to the strategic bombarder of a new generation, created according to Stelc technology.
Now, we recall, Russia is actively implementing the PAK program, which involves the creation of a unobistant subsonic "strategist", conceptually similar to the American B-2 Spirit.
Recently it became known about the manufacture of the first experienced engine for a promising aircraft. Also, according to some reports, in Russia, several samples of Pak yes immediately collect.
Source: Naked Science