The only countries with long range bomber aviation are Russia and the US- and the US has been proving for years that they’re extremely useful. Where’d you get the idea they’re “going the way of battleships”?

Exactly. B-52 has proven this the best!

Erm … “even worse”? As for the Tu-160, equip it with Kh-15 SRAMskis. That’s all it needs.

Can Tu-160s radar detect also sea targets?If so i dont think there would be a problem ,after minor modifications ,for it to launch Kh-15s.

Thats just the price for that bluish-green stealth coating:)

He did it for the girl!

P.S:i love those 70’s car engine sound 😀

If Kilos are hiding close to shore they would have the support of land based anti ship missile batteries and air defence.I do not think that US Navy ships would wander too close to Iran’s shore and especially the submarine warfare Orion’s at low altitude.

Barracuda is a German super fast Torpedo project.

For German speakers: http://www.prosieben.de/imperia/md/content/images/04_lifestyle_magazine/wunderwelt_wissen/WW_Torpedo_3.PDF

http://www.morgenwelt.de/609.1.html

Yep the photo is real and they indeed do:)

Some redundancy has also been built into the communication channels. In addition to mobile land and air-based relay stations, the nuclear C3 network also includes the Perimetr missile system which may be used to transmit launch commands to the nuclear forces. The Perimetr system uses missiles based on retired ballistic missile types (the most recent variant, the Perimetr-RTs, reportedly uses missiles based on the Topol ICBM, while earlier variants used missiles based on the Pioner IRBM and UR-100 ICBM) which would be launched upon the issue of nuclear attack orders and transmit these orders during their 20-50 minute flight over ICBM basing areas. Some consideration was given to enabling the Perimetr system to operate in an automated mode. Following a missile attack warning, Perimetr missiles could be set to launch automatically after a set period of time unless they received a second message stopping the countdown. Although this mode of operation would have provided further insurance against a decapitating strike, it was not adopted due to concerns over unauthorized nuclear launches in the event it proved impossible to stop the countdown.

US also has missiles that have their warhead replaced by electronics.They are used however to send launch orders to the SSBNs.I thik these missiles are of Minuteman III type.