{"id":380075,"date":"2010-03-02T07:18:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/?p=35631"},"modified":"2010-03-02T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:18:36","slug":"with-new-fighter-in-hand-putin-wants-modern-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/380075","title":{"rendered":"With new fighter in hand, Putin wants modern bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a>
\nMarch 2, 2010<\/p>\n

Once it has completed work on its own fifth-generation fighter, Russia<\/a> must proceed with designing a brand-new nuclear-capable strategic bomber, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin<\/a> said on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly, we should not confine ourselves to developing just one new model. After the fifth-generation fighter jet, we must think and get down to work on a next-generation, long-range aviation complex \u2014 our new strategic missile carrier,\u201d Putin told a cabinet meeting on Russia<\/a>\u2019s military<\/a>-industrial complex. After the demise of the Soviet Union, Russia<\/a> inherited a fleet of the still formidable but fast-aging Tupolev Tu-95MS turbo-prop strategic bombers and missile platforms codenamed \u201cBears\u201d by NATO.<\/p>\n

It also has a much smaller fleet of the more modern, supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 \u201cBlackjack\u201d jet bombers, the world\u2019s biggest warplanes built so far.<\/p>\n

Russia<\/a> test-flew its long-awaited stealth fighter at the end of January, presenting it as Moscow\u2019s first all-new warplane since the 1991 Soviet collapse and a challenge to the technological supremacy of Cold War foe the United States which rolled out its fifth-generation fighter more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

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