Kazan aircraft plant is completing work on the second deeply modernized Tu-160M
The Kazan aircraft plant is completing work on the second deeply modernized strategic missile carrier Tu-160M, and in the near future it will join the tests. This was announced by the head of the UAC Yuri Slyusar.
The Kazan aircraft plant is deeply modernizing the Tu-160 combat strategic bombers to the level of the Tu-160M. Currently, the first aircraft is undergoing tests, and the second will soon join it, work on which is already being completed. Further, both strategists will undergo state tests, after which they will go to combat units.
At the same time, a completely new strategic bomber Tu-160M, built from scratch, is being assembled in Kazan. According to the plans announced earlier, the aircraft should begin testing as early as this, 2021. In total, under the 2018 contract, the UAC will build ten new Tu-160M strategic bombers for the Ministry of Defense. In addition, it is planned to deeply modernize all combatant strategic missile carriers in service.
As previously explained in the corporation, on the deeply modernized Tu-160M, new flight and navigation equipment, an on-board communications complex, a control system, a radar station, an electronic countermeasures complex, as well as new NK-32-02 engines (series 2) were installed, the production of which was restored in Samara (UEC-Kuznetsov JSC).
The deeply modernized Tu-32M made its maiden flight with new NK-02-160 engines at the beginning of November last year. At the same time, it was emphasized that the engines installed on the aircraft are serial.
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