This year’s first modernized Tu-95MS aircraft was handed over to the Russian Defense Ministry
Press Service TANTK them. Beriev
TANTK them. Beriev (part of UAC) performs overhaul of strategic missile carriers Tu-95MS of long-range aviation of the Russian VKS, as well as anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142М, Tu-142МЗ and Tu-142МР aviation of the Russian Navy.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that in the 2018 year, six strategic rocket-carrying aircraft would be included in the Russian HSC after modernization. In 2017, the aviation strategic nuclear forces were replenished with three modernized aircraft; in 2016, the Aerospace Forces received two Tu-160 and two Tu-95MS, which were renovated with modernization.
As reported, the modernization of strategic missile carriers Tu-160 and Tu-95MS is being carried out on a planned basis. The chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov, earlier stated that “they install more powerful engines, the onboard radio-electronic equipment is transferred to the domestic element base, the range of means of destruction used is expanding.”
The Strategists Tu-95MS and Tu-160 are the air component of the nuclear triad. Tu-95MS is designed to solve percussion tasks in defeating the most important targets in remote areas and in the deep rear of continental theaters of operations.
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