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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.