Originally posted by Incognito
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Tu-160 was designed well before stealth tech went into play, it is very visible especially given how few of them can actually still fly.
The main concern to USA are not those airplanes but mobile rocket missile (MBRs) units that do not have fixed location - as I said there are people whose job is to keep an eye on them 24/7 and keep up to date location of all those units. Sometimes they make mistakes but these things are tracked pretty well as they should - any unexpected strategic deployment of this kind can be interpreted very negatively with very dire consequences.
Tu-160 is actually a rip off of B-1 bomber, just like Tu-144 was rip off Concorde - that is of course denied by those who ripped them off. Soviet strategic bombing was generally ripped off USA, in some cases more successful than originals, however this stuff that flies now was manufactures in the 80s and designed in 60-70s. It is completely pointless in current world to fly these - Americans stopped such patrols long time ago, very expensive even for them.
One thought for you - did you know that creators of Tu-95 strategic bomber did not plan for a toilet there? Can you believe it - they send out 2 crews on different shifts to fly this thing for a very long time and there is no place to go to toilet so pilots had to use bucket for that - and those people were given nuclear weapons!
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That's my last post on this matter.
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