Tu-160 "White Swan"

I never did, only that the 1st influenced the 2nd & it was derived (evolved) from the 1st. They learned from their mistakes to design & produce it.
Later, 12 years after the B-1 appeared in the USA, they produced the TU-160. I have no doubt that they borrowed many ideas from it:

But they also studied the B-1 project for comparison.

..the F-15 and the F-18 are based on the design of the MiG-25 in the sense that they are twin engined fighters with two vertical tails and two side by side jet engines with conventional wings and tail surfaces... would that be right?

The B-1B is a bomber... and without inflight refuelling it is a theatre bomber comparable to the Tu-22M3M. ..
If you want us to accept that Tupolev studied the B-1 programme then you have to admit that the makers of the B-1B also studied the Soviet bomber development programmes and copied parts of them too.

The F-18 is based on the F-16

Hole wrote:Two Tu-160´s landed in Venezuela.

https://tvzvezda.ru/news/forces/content/201812102045-hnu2.htm

magnumcromagnon wrote:

*Somewhere in the universe Rogozin is smiling*

Hole wrote:Two Tu-160´s landed in Venezuela.

Russia Dispatching Blackjack Bombers to Venezuela

Nuclear-capable jets to bolster leftist Maduro regime


Russia is deploying nuclear-capable Tu-160 Blackjack bombers to Venezuela this week as part of an increasingly provocative pattern of bomber training flights, according to American defense officials.

At least two Blackjacks will fly from a strategic forces air base in Russia to Venezuela as part of a series of training exercises that will include long-range refueling, said officials familiar with Russian plans for the flight.

The bomber foray to South America will be Russia's seventh training flight for Blackjack bombers in the past three months.

Mark Schneider, a former Pentagon official and specialist on the Russian military, said Tu-160 flights are unusual and increasing.

"There were six announced Tu-160 flights of the ‘provocative' type during the last three months, which is a lot," Schneider said.

The most recent incident took place near Norway in late October when Tu-160s were shadowed by British and Norwegian jet fighters over the Barents Sea.

Additionally, Russian forces utilized both Tu-160 and Tu-95 bombers during a recent strategic nuclear forces drill, and the Defense Ministry announced that the recent Ocean Shield exercise in the Mediterranean involved Blackjacks that were described by the Russian defense ministry as involving undisclosed new tactics.

"The announced Tu-160 flight over the North Pole is also unusual as well as clearly aimed at us," Schneider said. In August, two Blackjacks flew to the North Pole.

The Pentagon is expected to closely monitor the Blackjacks because of their potential to fire nuclear-armed cruise missiles at U.S. targets. A Pentagon spokesman could not be reached for comment Sunday.

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Maduro said Moscow also promised to help modernize Venezuela's military.

Defense ministers from the two countries met in Moscow last week and agreed that Russian air force and naval forces would continue to use Venezuelan ports and airports.

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"Normally in December they release a lot of information about their plans for the nuclear Strategic Missile Force. I expect they will make this as threatening as possible. I believe there will be more provocative bomber flights."

just friendly visit after US DDG was passing by Vladivostok, just coincidence.

does anyone have the faintest idea what Russian territorial water claims in the Sea of Japan the US disputes?

Russian Tu-160 ten hours spent in the sky over the Caribbean Sea

Venezuelan Su-30 and F-16 fighters accompanied them at certain stages.

Hole wrote:Would be nice to see a cruise missile test.