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Especially since payload of Tu-160 is much smaller than B-1B and supersonic capability it can provide works only on very short distances - it's not for deliveri

Especially since payload of Tu-160 is much smaller than B-1B and supersonic capability it can provide works only on very short distances - it's not for delivering bombs faster, more for running away from fighters.

dude4you 5y ago
It is not delivering bombs it is delivering cruise missiles.
- anovikov 5y ago
  Which makes the supersonic capability even more pointless. If it's going to release missiles from far away there won't be any fighters to evade.
  - dude4you 5y ago
    you are a military genius
    - anovikov 5y ago
      That's the thing: original plan was to make Tu-160 capable of sustained supersonic flight, to actually get bombs (X-15 missiles - Russian clones of SRAM) - to the target faster. That didn't work out.