Russia’s Aerospace Force commander Viktor Bondarev told reporters that the new Tu-160M2 strategic bomber will be making its first flight in 2019.
By Sergey Lysenko (http://russianplanes.net/id122395) [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Moscow announced in 2015 that it will delay the development of a new bomber and resume production of the Tu-160.