Obama killed the Next Generation Bomber back in April ’09, causing the design teams to disband and several years of work to be lost. And this is Russia’s response to Obama’s peace overture. Seems ol’ Obama cannot pull enough lollypops, flowers and fuzzy bunnies out of his @rse to keep Putin happy.
Russia to commission new stealth bomber in 2025-2030
RIA Novosti
15:42 22/12/2009Russia’s new strategic bomber will use stealth technologies and is expected to enter service in 2025-2030, the commander of Russia’s strategic aviation said on Tuesday.
According to Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, the stealth technology will make “the new aircraft difficult to detect by radar, although it is impossible to make airplanes of this type completely invisible.”
“However, new technologies and materials will help reduce the possibility of detection,” Zhikarev said, adding that the new airplane was expected to enter service in 2025-2030.
The new strategic bomber will replace the Tu-95MC Bear and Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers, and Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range bombers currently in service with Russia’s strategic aviation.
more at link…
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20091222/157324925.html
ETA: This is a dupe of a posting made by Austin under “Russian Aviation News”
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December 23, 2009 at 3:10 am