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Upgraded Tu-22M3 jet to be ready by 2017 (VIDEO)

Moscow , Russia - More efficiency, more system automation, more safety...

According to the declaration made by Andrey Levenets, Deputy Technical Director of Tupolev’s engineering centre, this year is going to start the documentation and the manufacturing of the first prototypes of the Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber (NATO reporting name Backfire C). Its first flight will be performed in 2017. Two prototypes are being prepared in order to speed up the process, and the total n...

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Rome, Italy, 07/16/2014 22:21
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