In a few days, the news was particularly rich on the question of Russian bombers, announcing the renewal of the strategic forces of the Russian Air Force in the decades to come. Indeed, after the first flight of the Tu-160M2 prototype supersonic on February 2, followed by the announcement of an order for 10 production units, the russian press indicated the next day that the Russian Ministry of Defense gave its agreement for the launch of the production of the future stealth bomber PAK-DA, whose first flight would be expected for 2027. These two very distinct programs are indeed intimately linked on the industrial level and the concomitance of the announcements seems to draw a little more precisely the outline of the future Russian strategic air forces by 2040.
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