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New Tu-160M2 strategic #bomber prototype to be ready by 2019 according to #Tupolev CEO Aleksandr Konyhov #Russia ria.ru/defense_safety…
A couple of weeks old(@ most) image of Tu-160M2 (№08-04) proto that is to start trails in October, 2017 ©Vpered! via dimmi-tomsk.livejournal.com/375753.html
PAO Kuznetsov to test Tu-160M2's NК-32-02(М2) turbofans on the modernised test stand No1-Kuznetsov's 3rd test stand.
rostec.ru/news/4521075
EDIT: Those images appear to be form 13.11.2014 tupolev.ru/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D…
So most likely one of the two other Kuznetsov test stands(?)
#Tupolev is digitising production process and is to use cloud data processing in manufacture of Tu-160M2
uacrussia.livejournal.com/68193.html?utm…
PAO Kuznetsov started testing NК-32-02(М2) turbofan for Tu-160M2
(On the modernised turboprop engine test stand No1)
tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/4…
Re;NK-32-02 tests:"much more complicated than, say,launching a spaceship"Imgs:stand No1 fac &1st post'93 built NK-32
business-gazeta.ru/article/360202
Russian Military-Industrial Complex(VPK) source: (Soviet legacy airframe №08-04) Tu-160M2 strategic bomber might make its maiden flight in February 2018.The aircraft shall be transferred from the assembly line to the flight testing facility this November.
tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/4…
First images of the 1st (Soviet legacy airframe №08-04) Tu-160M2 strategic bomber during the rollout ceremony & transfer to the flight testing facility at the S.P. Grobunov Plant in Kazan on 16.11.2017.
©Iskander Asabaev
More images of Soviet legacy airframe №08-04 Tu-160M2 strategic bomber during the rollout ceremony & transfer to the flight testing facility at the S.P. Grobunov Plant in Kazan on 16.11.2017. Via bolshayaigra_war
More images of the Soviet legacy airframe №08-04 Tu-160M2 strategic bomber during the rollout ceremony & transfer to the flight testing facility at the S.P. Grobunov Plant in Kazan on 16.11.2017.
Images via bolshayaigra_war
Video of the Soviet legacy airframe №08-04 Tu-160M2 strategic bomber during the rollout ceremony & transfer to the flight testing facility at the S.P. Grobunov Plant in Kazan on 16.11.2017.
Video © TVZvezda
Possible look & layout of the new Tu-160M2 glass cockpit & workstations.
#Soviet legacy airframe №08-04 #Tupolev-160M2 prototype - painted and named Petr Deinekin - carried out a demo flight for V.V.#Putin today at the S.P. Grobunov Plant in Kazan. tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/4…
Images ©Dmitry Romsahko ©Marina Listseva
Video of today's #Tupolev-160M(2) Petr Deinekin demo flight for V.V.#Putin at the S.P. Grobunov Plant in Kazan.
©TV Zvezda
Marina Lystseva shared some photos of the heavy strategic bomber #Tupolev-160M(2) Petr Deinekin she took today whilst at the S.P. Grobunov Plant in Kazan.
fotografersha.livejournal.com/959143.html
#Russia|n Deputy M'sterOD #Borisov & UAC President Yury Slyusar signed Tu-160M delivery contract at Kazan Aviation Plant (KAZ) S.P. Grobunov today.
#Putin w/ #Tupolev-160M(2) crew that took to the air today for around 7 minutes at an altitude of 300m.
More:kremlin.ru/events/preside…
Exclusive footage of #Engels airbase (TsVO) and #Tupolev-160 long range strategic bomber's MKU-6-5U rotary launcher being loaded with a subsonic 4k km range Kh-101 (Izdeliye 111/504) missile in the latest episode of Chasovoy series.
8.02.2018 image of #Tupolev-160 crew trainer aircraft Tu-134UB-L 31 Red RF-65733 in the air above Abakan Airport.
(N.B. Wonder if new glass cockpit & #AESA as per Tu-160M2 is on the cards?)
©Alexl
Source: russianplanes.net/id225451
#Tupolev presented "unified information environment for design, production & after-sales service" for T-160.Apparently 1st such system created in domestic aircraft industry. Prob.akin to UIA?
uacrussia.livejournal.com/76085.html
Image:Note Tu-160M2 glass cockpit as per
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