Russia (bbabo.net), - The United Aircraft Corporation has published a video of the first flight of the Tu-160M ​​strategic missile carrier. The new aircraft is the first built from scratch in post-Soviet Russia. Previous missile carriers were created using the factory backlog, or they were converted from combatant Tu-160s.

The plane in yellow factory coloring took off from the airfield of the aviation plant in Kazan - the only enterprise in Russia where new missile carriers are assembled, the ones already built are being repaired and modernized. The flight lasted about half an hour, the plane climbed to a height of 600 meters, performed several simple maneuvers and landed.

- Today's flight is a great work of the whole team. And although this is a Tu-160 type, this is a completely new aircraft. Not only because it was built from scratch. It's done on a completely different level. This applies to both production technology and internal equipment. And he has much more opportunities, - said the chief pilot of Tupolev PJSC Viktor Minashkin. According to him, the car showed itself perfectly in flight.

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