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Re:Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017) by anovikov on Saturday August 28, 2021 @08:13AM (#28337447)
Especially since payload of Tu-160 is much smaller than B-1B and supersonic capability it can provide works only on very short distances - it's not for delivering bombs faster, more for running away from fighters.
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Re:Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017) by dude4you on Saturday August 28, 2021 @09:08AM (#28337737)
It is not delivering bombs it is delivering cruise missiles.
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Re:Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017) by anovikov on Saturday August 28, 2021 @05:29PM (#28341683)
Which makes the supersonic capability even more pointless. If it's going to release missiles from far away there won't be any fighters to evade.
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Re:Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017) by dude4you on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:40AM (#28345678)
you are a military genius
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Re:Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (2017) by anovikov on Sunday August 29, 2021 @10:33AM (#28347020)
That's the thing: original plan was to make Tu-160 capable of sustained supersonic flight, to actually get bombs (X-15 missiles - Russian clones of SRAM) - to the target faster. That didn't work out.
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