The first flight of the Tu-160m strategic rocket miner is planned for 2022. About this Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov reported at the enterprise “ADC – Perm Motors”, reports TASS.
The first flight Tu-160 is planned, I hope at the beginning of next year, “said Borisov in a conversation with the head of the state corporation” Rostech “Sergey Chezzov.
Vice Prime Minister added that the aircraft can perform a mileage with new NK-32 engines. He stressed that the new Tu-160 is not built from the existing bore, but on a new elementary base.
Earlier, TASS, referring to the source in the aircrafttener industry, reported that the Tu-160m of the new construction would be tested in December. The source said that by the end of the year the aircraft will run through the runway.
In October, the managing director of the “CED-Kuznetsov” Alexey Sobolev announced the increase in the production of NK-32 engines. The representative of the enterprise noted that the entire park of Tu-160 bombers will receive new motors.