• IP addresses are NOT logged in this forum so there's no point asking. Please note that this forum is full of homophobes, racists, lunatics, schizophrenics & absolute nut jobs with a smattering of geniuses, Chinese chauvinists, Moderate Muslims and last but not least a couple of "know-it-alls" constantly sprouting their dubious wisdom. If you believe that content generated by unsavory characters might cause you offense PLEASE LEAVE NOW! Sammyboy Admin and Staff are not responsible for your hurt feelings should you choose to read any of the content here.

    The OTHER forum is HERE so please stop asking.

1B1R Putin launched 3 new big war toy in last 3 days

nkfnkfnkf

Alfrescian
Loyal
Joined
Aug 19, 2008
Messages
2,741
Points
38
Supersonic MACH2.05 nuke bomber latest model TU-160M2 + super biggy nuke sub
Knyaz Vladimir
+ new anti-stealth AWAC A-100

http://www.businessinsider.sg/russia-new-tu-160m2-long-range-super-bomber-2017-11/?r=US&IR=T

8 photos of the Tu-160M2, the new long-range super bomber that Russia just unveiled

Daniel Brown, Business Insider US
November 17, 2017
5a0f14d7f914c35b018b49ca.jpg

Tu-160M2.
United Aircraft Corporation


Russia unveiled its new Tu-160M2 Blackjack long-range super bomber on Thursday – an upgrade to the Tu-160M and original Tu-160, according to The Drive.

“While ostensibly an improved variant of the Soviet-era Tu-160, the Tu-160M2 is a new bomber in all but name,” Russian media said, according to The Aviationist.

The new Blackjack is expected to make its maiden flight in 2018 and go into mass production in 2021.


Its full capabilities are therefore still unknown – but here’s what we know so far:

Russia unveiled the new Tu-160M2 White Swan — codenamed Blackjack by NATO — on Thursday.

5a0f3a7b3dbef4f1018b6dc3.jpg


United Aircraft Corporation
Source: airforce-technology.com, The Drive



It’s an upgrade to the Tu-160M, which entered Russian service in 2014.
5a0f3e433dbef48a6a8b675d.jpg


REUTERS/Host Photo Agency/RIA Novosti
The original Tu-160 first entered Soviet service in 1987.
ap-image-placeholder.jpg


The Tu-160 is often compared to the US’ B-1B Lancer.
5a0f3c763dbef471018b6d37.jpg


Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III/USAF/Handout via REUTERS
Here’s more on the B-1B Lancer.

It’s full capabilities are still unknown, but other than keeping the same frame, it will reportedly be a much different aircraft.
5a0f3a88f914c359018b4b7a.jpg


United Aircraft Corporation
In 2015, Russian media reported that the new Blackjack would share 60% of its components with the older version.

You can find a full list of the original Tu-160’s specifications here, and the Tu-160M modifications here.

Source: The National Interest

It will reportedly have a new engine — four of the NK-32 02 series seen below — which will add 600 miles to its flying range.
5a0f3a94f914c351018b4b2f.jpg


Rostec
The original engine on the Tu-160 – the NK-32 – is already a powerful engine, providing 55,000 lbs of thrust. The B-1B Lancer, on the other hand, only generates about 31,000 pounds of thrust.

Source: The Drive, The Aviationist

It will also reportedly have new avionics, sensors, and communications equipment.
5a0f3aa0f914c353018b4b42.jpg


United Aircraft Corporation
Source: The Drive, The Aviationist

Including improved inertial, satellite, and astro-navigation equipment. An active electronically scanned array radar will be to able to detect targets at longer ranges and with better accuracy.
5a0f3abef914c359018b4b7d.jpg


United Aircraft Corporation
Source: The Drive

It will also most likely be fitted with a new KRET defensive suite.
5a0f3ad43dbef484008b6e47.jpg


United Aircraft Corporation
The new defensive suite might possibly have any combination of better infrared countermeasures, solid-state lasers, or beams of electromagnetic radiation to take out incoming missiles.

Source: The Drive, KRET

The new Tu-160M2 will probably be used for the same kind of missions as the older Tu-160M version, and carry the same Kh-101 and nuclear Kh-102 cruise missiles.
5a0f3aec3dbef4b5748b66d7.jpg


United Aircraft Corporation
Source: The Drive

Russia hopes to buy at least 50 of the new Tu-160M2s.
5a0f3afaf914c355018b4b60.jpg


United Aircraft Corporation
Source: The Drive

Below is a video of the new Blackjack rolling out of the hanger.






https://theaviationist.com/2017/11/16/russia-unveils-new-tu-160m2-strategic-super-bomber-update/

Russia Unveils New Tu-160M2 Strategic Super Bomber Update
Nov 16 2017 - 1 Comment
TU_160M2_roll-out.jpg

By Tom Demerly
The Newest Version of the Massive Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack Was Rolled-Out This Week.
Russia has rolled out the latest upgrade of the world’s largest supersonic strategic bomber, the Tupolev Tu-160M2 “White Swan” NATO codename “Blackjack.

While the original version of the Tu-160 first flew in December of 1981, the program was halted with collapse of the Soviet Union. Ukraine acquired several of the aircraft that were subsequently traded back to Russia in a bombers-for-natural gas deal.

“While ostensibly an improved variant of the Soviet-era Tu-160, the Tu-160M2 is a new bomber in all but name” according statements published in Russian media from the Russian Aerospace Force.

By appearance and Russian claims, the Tu-160 appears to be an impressive aircraft, with the completely updated “M2” version purported to be even more capable. The Tu-160 in its previous variants held a number of records for speed in its weight class. It remains the largest, fastest strategic bomber in operation, second only to the developmental U.S. built XB-70 Valkyrie in size, weight and performance. It is also the world’s largest variable-geometry swept wing aircraft, significantly larger and heavier than the U.S. B-1B strategic, supersonic variable-swept wing bomber.

This latest version of the titanic “Blackjack”, as it is known in the west, is expected to make its first flight in late 2018 and enter into full-rate production by 2021 according to Russian media.

“The first Tu-160M2 is expected to make its first flight by the end of 2018, followed by full-scale production in 2021,” Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev, commander of the Russian Air Force, told media in the rollout ceremony at the S.P. Grobunov assembly facility in Kazan, in southwest Russia on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.

The newly built Blackjack will initially be capable of performing the same missions as the existing Blackjack fleet and will subsequently be modified and upgraded to the M2 standard.

Analysts note that the full-scale production date has been rolled back from 2019 to the new 2021 date announced today.

The Tu-160M2 is intended to be the basis of Russia’s strategic strike capability, but funding for the project has faced challenges.

All reports suggest the only similarities between the new “M2” version of the Tu-160 are the name and the airframe. All avionics, sensors and communications equipment are reported to be new. The aircraft is also intended to be re-engined with four new, upgraded Kuznetsov NK-32 engines with afterburners.

Interestingly, the rollout of the new Tu-160M2 seems to have quieted discussion of the conceptual Tupolev PAK-DA flying wing stealth bomber, a project shown in drawings since 2008. Early reports suggested the PAK-DA would be entering service in 2025-2030. A statement today during the Tu-160M2 rollout downplayed low-observable technology, saying that the Mach 2+ speed of the Tu-160M2 and the use of stand-off weapons negated the need for stealth. Key new weapons on the Tu-160M2 are the KH-101 and KH-102 long range, low-observable cruise missiles. These large, capable, precision missile systems have ranges in excess of 1,000 miles.

The Tu-160M2 will operate alongside the aging Russian Tu-95 Bear turboprop long range maritime patrol and strategic bomber in the foreseeable future, mimicking the U.S. reliance on their B-52 Stratofortress legacy heavy bomber alongside the B-1B (conventional) supersonic strategic bomber.

Image credit: United Aircraft Corp Russia.



Tags: Russian Air Force, Tu-160 Blackjack, Tu-160M2, Tu-95 Bear



  • InklingBooks
    It’s green to better hide in the grass.

 
Simply there is sufficient nuke on board this to wipe all countries of NATO clean within 30mins.


https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/la...ctic-US-Cold-War-North-Belgorod-Project-09852


Russia unveils world’s BIGGEST ever nuclear submarine
VLADIMIR PUTIN Is ready to welcome the world’s biggest ever nuclear submarine to the fleet of Russia.


By Henry Holloway / Published 23rd April 2017
Moscow’s seapower is set to expand as navy bosses revealed Project 09852 – which is primed to be the biggest nuclear-powered sub on Earth.

The vessel – known as Belgorod – would be nearly 200-metres long and would be tasked with deep-sea exploration in the Arctic.

Putin’s new 184-metre sub will be based around the unfinished Antey-class missile strike carrier vessel developed by the Soviet Union.

Russia-Nuclear-Submarine-Vladimir-Putin-Arctic-US-Cold-War-North-Belgorod-Project-09852-608102.jpg
GETTY

RUSSIA: Vladimir Putin's new nuclear submarine is even bigger than the Typhoon (pictured)
Could this be the hardware that wages WW3? Putin's FEROCIOUS futuristic weaponry

Putin has an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry at his fingertips. Could this be the hardware that wages WW3?
1 / 11
903989.jpg
AFP/Getty Images
The T-90 tank: equipped with a 125mm smoothbore cannon and remote controlled anti-aircraft gun

Related Articles
Belgorod will be 14 metres longer than the USS Pennsylvania, the biggest submarine the fleet of the US Navy.

Project 09852 would also be 11 metres longer than the biggest submarine ever unveiled by Russia – the Typhoon cruiser.

The sub’s prime mission will be unexplored territory beneath the Arctic shelf – amid fears Russia and the US could race for oil beneath the North Pole.

Russia-Nuclear-Submarine-Vladimir-Putin-Arctic-US-Cold-War-North-Belgorod-Project-09852-915920.jpg
GETTY

VLADIMIR PUTIN: Russia wants to expand into the Arctic
Russia-Nuclear-Submarine-Vladimir-Putin-Arctic-US-Cold-War-North-Belgorod-Project-09852-915921.jpg
GETTY

ARCTIC: Russia planted a flag beneath the Arctic shelf in a daring bid to claim the North
The submarine was revealed to carry scientific equipment and unmanned deep-sea vehicles, Russian newspaper Izvestia reported.

It will also carry a number of smaller submarines – known as bathyscaphes – as Putin expands into the Arctic.

Professor Vadim Kozyulin, of the Academy of Military Sciences, said: "It will transport and install autonomous nuclear submarine modules designed to charge uninhabited submarines on the seabed.”

Putin's youth: the Russian children learning to fire MACHINE GUNS

The General Yermolov Cadet School in the village of Sengileyevskoye outside Stavropol gives students military and combat training in around their regular curriculum
1 / 15
911216.jpg
Alamy Stock Photo
wear gas masks during their first military tactical exercise on the ground, which includes radiation resistance classes, forest survival studies and other activities

Related videos
  • Bill Browder: I believe Putin is worth $200 billion
  • Former ambassador to US: Putin is last man to give in to the West
  • Tillerson tells Putin U.S. Russia relations are ‘at a low point’
He added: "The submarine will ensure the deployment of a global underwater monitoring system, which the military is building on the bottom of the Arctic waters.”

Russia is heavily expanding into the Arctic with military bases such as Northern Shamrock – which welcomed an army convoy that drove 1,200 miles across the ice earlier this year.

Cold War-era military bases have been reopened in bid to secure vital territories which could be a gateway to oil and gas beneath the tundra

Related articles



http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...ear-missile-submarine-launches-tomorrow-23229


Russia's Next Big Nuclear Missile Submarine Launches Tomorrow
rtr259ax.jpg

Dave Majumdar
November 16, 2017

TweetShareShare

Russia’s first Project 995A Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) is set to be launched on November 17 in Severodvinsk. The vessel, called Prince Vladimir (Князь Владимир—transliterated as Knyaz Vladimir) is an improved version of the original Project 955 SSBN, three of which have been completed for the Russian Navy.

Compared to the three older Project 995 boats, Prince Vladimir has a better acoustical stealth, better electronics and improved living spaces for the crew. Like its predecessors, the new SSBN will be armed with 16 D-30 Bulava submarine launched ballistic missiles. Prince Vladimir is the first of five Project 995A ballistic missile submarines to be built for the Russian Navy. The remainder of the Project 995A boats—Prince Oleg, Generalissimus Suvorov, Emperor Alexander III and Prince Pozharsky are in various stages of construction.

Recommended: Who Swallows North Korea after it Collapses?

However, the Russians are continuing the development of the Project 995 class beyond the eight vessels that have either been built or are in construction. Recently, Russia’s chief of the general staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov announced that the Kremlin would develop a third iteration of the Borei design—the Project 995B. "Work to create the advanced Borei-B nuclear-powered missile underwater cruiser has started," Gerasimov said at a Defense Ministry Board meeting according to the TASS news agency.

Recommended: US Army's 5 Most Lethal Weapons of War

There are no details available about the new Borei-B, except that it would be technologically more advanced than the original Borei and the Borei-A. In the meantime, the Russia’s new State Armament Plan (abbreviated as GPV 2018-2027) which will run from 2018 to 2027, calls for the development of the new Husky-class submarine.

The Husky will be developed in three variants. One version will be a basic nuclear-powered attack submarine while a second version will be an SSGN or cruise missile carrier. A third version would an another ballistic missile submarine design to complement or potentially replace the older Boreis or remaining Delta-class vessels.

Recommended: Russia's Armata Tank vs. America's M-1 Abrams - Who Wins?

The idea is similar to how the United States Navy developed its Virginia-class submarine, which has evolved from an attack submarine into a cruise missile carrier with the addition of the Virginia Payload Module. An indeed, the U.S. Navy’s forthcoming Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines are in many ways an enlarged derivative of the Virginia-class design. The Russians intend to follow the same pattern with their Husky-class.

One of the surprises in the Kommersant report that has caught many military analysts by surprise is that the SSBN version of the Husky will apparently be armed with a liquid-fueled SLBM. It is possible that the report is in error and the new submarine will be armed with a solid fuel missile, however the Russians continue to arm their Delta-class SSBNs with versions of the liquid-fuel R-29 SLBM.

However, many Russian and American military analysts specializing in Russian defense issues are skeptical that the Husky SSBN variant will ever be built, thus, it might not matter what the GPV says when it is formally released. In the near term at least, since the Husky is at best in its developmental phase, there is no chance that there will be any procurement rubles—allocated to the project.

Dave Majumdar is the defense editor for the National Interest. You can follow him on Twitter: @davemajumdar.

Image: Reuters.


https://sputniknews.com/russia/201711181059210475-knyaz-vladimir-submarine-russian-navy/

Knyaz Vladimir Nuclear Submarine to Be Commissioned to Russian Navy in 2018
© Sputnik/ Semen Vasiliev
Russia
03:41 18.11.2017(updated 10:23 18.11.2017) Get short URL
31515201
Russia's Project 955A Borei II-class ballistic missile submarine, the Knyaz Vladimir, will be commissioned to the Russian Navy in 2018.

SEVERODVINSK (Russia) (Sputnik) — Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Adm. Vladimir Korolev said on Friday that Russia's Project 955A Borei II-class ballistic missile submarine, the Knyaz Vladimir, will be commission to the Russian Navy in 2018.

"We are planning to receive the vessel in 2018, I think, Sevmash [shipyard] will confirm this," Korolev told reporters.

Knyaz Vladimir is the fourth Borei II-class submarine, developed by Russia's Rubin Design Bureau. The Borei-class nuclear-powered subs are to become the mainstay of the naval component of the Russia's strategic nuclear deterrent. The new vessels, with a length of nearly two football fields, can carry sixteen Bulava missiles, each fitted with up to 10 independently-targetable nuclear warheads.

#Russia Launched the First Project 955A Borei-A #SSBN #Submarine Knyaz Vladimir https://t.co/sk9Mfz2YCT pic.twitter.com/OsZh1WYoPA

— NavyRecognition (@NavyRecognition) 17 ноября 2017 г.
By 2020, the Russian Navy plans to operate a total of eight Borei-class strategic submarines.



 
Can direct air force jets MiGs Sukhois & AA missiles S-300 S-400 S-500 to take out all the stealth planes USAF has within 650km





https://sputniknews.com/military/201711181059219741-russia-awacs-a100-maiden-flight/
'Flying Radar': Russian A-100 AWACS Aircraft Makes Maiden Flight
© Sputnik/ Vitaliy Belousov
Military & Intelligence
16:55 18.11.2017(updated 16:56 18.11.2017) Get short URL
0 3602361
The newest Russian AWACS aircraft can detect up to 300 targets.

Russia's A-100, the most advanced airborne early warning and control aircraft (or AWACS), made its maiden flight, the press service of the Vega concern, which creates equipment for the "flying radar" has announced.

The A-100 first flight test was aimed at checking its aerodynamic characteristics, the performance of avionics and part of the equipment of the radio engineering complex.

The Beriev A-100 aircraft, which was constructed on the base of the Il-76MD-90A (Il-476) transport aircraft, is expected that A-100 will replace the Beriev A-50 Mainstay AWACS aircraft, which is currently in service of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

rianru: "Летающий радар" А-100 совершил первый полет https://t.co/MOIAwGJAsU pic.twitter.com/0U3e6J4FXh (via Twitter https://t.co/dcjI6kP1FK) pic.twitter.com/lKo9RQFQed

— Виктор Файн (@nekto0701) 18 ноября 2017 г.
READ MORE: Russian-Built AWACS-Type Aircraft to Detect New Generation Targets — Shoigu

1040021350.jpg

© Sputnik/ Ivan Rudnev
Russia’s Next-Gen A-100 AWACS Steps Ahead of US Counterpart
The newest Russian AWACS aircraft can detect and track targets, as well as participate in operating fighter jets and bombers with guidance on air, land and sea targets. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the A-100 is superior to foreign analogues as its advanced reconnaissance and control capabilities would enable it to detect new classes of targets and to improve combat management.
Serial deliveries of the state-of-the-art AWACS aircraft to the Russian Aerospace Forces is expected to begin in 2020.


http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/...laims-new-beriev-100-awacs-detect-f-22-35.htm


Russia Claims New Beriev A-100 AWACS can Detect US F-22 and F-35 Stealth Fighters
By Arthur Dominic Villasanta | May 06, 2017 08:22 PM EDT
0
flying-mushroom.jpg

Beriev A-100 taking-off. (Photo : Russian Air Force)

The Russian Air Force (VVS) will rely heavily on its new Beriev A-100 "Premier" airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft to detect stealthy enemy aircraft such as the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.

Like Us on Facebook


First flown in October 2016, the Beriev 100 carries the new Vega Premier AESA radar in a rotating radome. The array rotates once every five seconds, improving the radar's ability to track fast moving targets such as enemy jets.

The Beriev 100, which is based on the Il-76MD-90A (Il-476) transport aircraft, remains under development, however. The A-100 was first tested in flight on a flying laboratory last month.

The A-100 is being developed by Vega Radio Engineering Concern, a subsidiary of Rostec, the state corporation that dominates Russia's defense industry.

Nicknamed "The Flying Mushroom" because of its huge radome, the Beriev A-100 is a long-range radar surveillance and guidance system. Its role is to detect air targets, surface ships and inform command centers about the situation existing in a specific battlespace.

In addition, they can serve as air command posts and provide assistance to assault aircraft attacking air, land and sea targets.

The Beriev A-100 multifunctional long-range radar surveillance aircraft will be able to detect new classes of targets, including next-generation operational-tactical aircraft, claims Russian Defense Minister, Russian Army General Sergei Shoigu.

"This complex will be able to rapidly build up the radar field in a given operational direction. Its development is conditioned by the appearance of new classes of targets, including next-generation operational-tactical aircraft," said Gen. Shoigu a few days ago.

Russian state-controlled media said the "next-generation operational-tactical aircraft" cited by Gen. Shoigu refers to the F-22 and the F-35.

Gen. Shoigu also said the VVS plans to develop two variants of the Breiev A-100: a flying laboratory and a prototype of a multifunctional radar surveillance and guidance system.

 
360 deg view Video of Putin's Nuke ICBM launching at night @ only 50m from TEL. See dust blasted to cover camera lens!




https://www.rt.com/news/410592-topol-launch-panoramic-video/

Russian nuke launch caught on stunning panoramic video from mere 50m away
Published time: 22 Nov, 2017 09:14 Edited time: 22 Nov, 2017 09:24
Get short URL
5a153c54fc7e93d0608b4567.jpg

© Телеканал ЗВЕЗДА / YouTube
A panoramic video of a Topol-M ICBM test launch shot from a distance of about 50 meters from the mobile launcher was released by the TV network of the Russian Armed Forces.
The nighttime video, with some CGI added to provide specifications of the nuclear-capable missile and highlight the launch platform, was published on Tuesday by Zvezda TV. The footage was taken in October at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The Topol-M (RT-2PM2) is a current land-based vehicle deployed by Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces, launched either from a silo or from a mobile launcher. The Russian Defense Ministry is in the process of replacing them with the more advanced Yars missiles.
 
Back
Top