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Originally Posted by Rochard
Kind of misleading there. Thirty-five were built. Currently, Russia has sixteen of these. Ironically, Ukraine has nineteen of them.
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You, also, noticed how he tried to spin that 1.
You have to expect that from someone living in the land that truth and honesty forgot.
Russia
Russian Air Force - 16 were in service (12 combat and four in training) as of April 2008, with the 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Regiment at Engels/Saratov.
As of 2013, 11 Tu-160s are combat-ready.
Ukraine
Ukrainian Air Force inherited 19 Tu-160s from the former Soviet Union, and subsequently handed over eight Tu-160s to Russia as exchange for debt relief in 1999; the remainder were scrapped under the Nunn?Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction agreement led by the US. 1 in museum of the strategic aviation in Poltava.