Russia"s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks during a cupboard assembly on Russia"s military-industrial challenging in Moscow, Mar 1, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Ria Novosti/Pool/Alexei Druzhinin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Once it has finished work on the own fifth-generation fighter, Russia contingency ensue with conceptualizing a mint nuclear-capable vital bomber, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pronounced on Monday.
"Certainly, we should not obstruct ourselves to building only one new model. After the fifth-generation warrior jet, we contingency think and get down to work on a next-generation, long-range aviation challenging -- the new vital barb carrier," Putin told a cupboard assembly on Russia"s military-industrial complex. After the passing of the Soviet Union, Russia hereditary a swift of the still challenging but fast-aging Tupolev Tu-95MS turbo-prop vital bombers and barb platforms codenamed "Bears" by NATO.
It additionally has a most not as big swift of the some-more modern, supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 "Blackjack" jet bombers, the world"s greatest warplanes built so far.
Russia test-flew the long-awaited secrecy warrior at the finish of January, presenting it as Moscow"s initial all-new warplane given the 1991 Soviet fall and a plea to the technological leverage of Cold War enemy the United States that rolled out the fifth-generation warrior some-more than a decade ago.
Putin, afterwards president, systematic in 2007 to resume Soviet-style patrols of Russian bombers around the globe, saying it as a approach of boosting Moscow"s status in the world.
(Reporting by Gleb Bryanski; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Charles Dick)
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