Putin Climbs Inside Russian Tu-160 nuclear bomber

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited on February 21 the Kazan aircraft factory which manufactures both civilian and military planes. Russian leader arrived in Kazan to attend the "Future Games", an international sports event.

Putin climbed inside a TU-160 nuclear-capable strategic bomber, one of four currently undergoing modernization at the enterprise.

One of the TU-160 planes bore the name of Ilya Muromets, Eastern Slavic bogatyr (epic mythical character akin to Western European knight errant).

The same name Kyiv-born, Russian-American aviation engineer Igor Sykorsky has given to the heavy bomber which he designed and constructed in 1913 just before the start of World War One.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine received 19 TU-160 bombers, part of which was disassembled and others handed over to Russia.

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