The Russian prime minister has announced their plans to produce a new long range stealth bomber. 
This will be the Russians first stealth bomber and its second stealth airplane. Production of the actual bomber will probably begin in 2025-2030.
Now my military ring customers in my humble opinion the fact that Russia is just getting to the point of producing stealth technology shows how much they have suffered from the collapse of their economy. This is a far cry from the days of the cold war that I remember. When the Soviets and the US were involved in the arms race they would almost immediately acquire and duplicate US technology but obviously times are tough for them.
The new strategic bomber that they will have is designed to replace their TU-95 andTU-160 bombers.
I think that we can safely say that the cold war years that us older warriors remember are long gone. No more two super powers attempting to match each other tit for tat. You younger military ring customers who may not have been around during those days but our training doctrine was much different than it is today. Our strategy was to fight outnumbered and win because the WARSAW pact countries outnumbered us in every category of equipment and personnel. During those days we knew that in the event of a war with Russia we would probably have to use battlefield nukes.
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