Russia is planning to fly its Tu-160 supersonic bomber over the Arctic later this year, commander of long-range aviation commander Maj. Gen. Sergei Kobylash has disclosed.
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By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (TU-160) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
“This year, we plan to fly Tu-160s to Anadyr. The Arctic is of strategic importance to us and we have been exploring new airfields and other ways of beefing up security on the maritime border,” he said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper.