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No new Tu-160 in 2005

It looks like the Strategic Aviation will not get the promised new Tu-160 bomber this year. According to an account of Sergei Ivanov's visit to the Ural-Volga military district, the aircraft will be delivered in 2006.

[Aviation] [November 22, 2005] []

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So, it was a delay with the S-400 also. Some comentarists claims about unabated inflation (24 billon for the Tu-160 !!!!). This situation reached also the buy of S-400 or the problem is the delay with the 40N6 missile?

[Rodolfo] [November 28, 2005] [#]

I haven't seen anything about S-400 (or any other missile defense system) in a while. Was there a plan to buy one fo these in 2005?

[Pavel Podvig] [November 28, 2005] [#]

Here an article about the 2005 puchases - http://mdb.cast.ru/mdb/1-2005/raf/russian_military/.

[Rodolfo] [November 29, 2005] [#]

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