The Tu-160 is Russia’s most advanced bomber, designed to launch nuclear-tipped cruise missiles at the U.S. The man claims to have worked on the Tu-160 bomber, Russia’s dual-capable, semi-stealthy, cruise missile flinging bomber. As a cruise missile carrier, the Tu-160 typically flies at Mach .77 and a maximum altitude of 39,000 feet. Kinzhal has a range of 1,200 miles, about the range of the Kh-55SM nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The introduction of hypersonics would immensely complicate NORAD’s efforts to destroy a Tu-160 bomber’s missiles once launched.
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