The Russian Defense Ministry announced that Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic bombers fired cruise missiles during an exercise at an Arctic training ground.
The ministry indicated - according to (Russia Today) news channel today, Thursday, that the launches were carried out normally, and that the missiles successfully hit ground targets in the training area.
It noted that the Russian bombers took off to participate in this exercise from an airport in the Saratov region and traveled more than four thousand kilometers, and that the crews of the Tu-95MS aircraft of the Amur Long-Range Aviation Formation were trained in the Irkutsk region during a flight that lasted more than. From 6 hours on practical shooting from air guns.
Tactical flight exercises are being conducted with the participation of the crews of the Tu-160, Tu-95MS and L78 aircraft under the command of long-range aviation commander Sergei Kobylash, and include long-range aviation units stationed in the Saratov, Amur, Irkutsk and Ryazan regions and are scheduled to end Rehearsals tomorrow, Friday.
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