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Indian Navy or Indian Air Force induct strategic long-range bombers in their fleet some time ago there was an opinion in a newspaper called Eurasia x, it is a known fact that People's Republic of China is working on its strategic long-range bomber fleet and increasing them with every passing day as for the opinion in Eurasia x Indian establishment is keeping a close eye on the increasing number of Chinese bombers and considering a long-range strategic bomber fleet for India itself whenever someone talks about the bomber fleet in context of India the only options which India has is Tu-22 and
TU-160 bombers are generally classified into two types the first one is tactical short clean bombers and the second one is strategic long-range bombers the tactical bombers are basically fighter jets modified as bombers in case of India for example Jaguar or su-30mki these tactical bombers cannot carry too much of load however, in the case of Su-30mki, the load is significant but it is not as significant as B2 lancer
TU-160 or B2 bomber these aircrafts are called as strategic long-range bombers the strategic long-range bombers are really significant and they can help a country to do a power projection and get a deal negotiated to its own an advantage for example when the United The states of America wants to send a message to North Korea they send b-52 or b2 around the Korean the border on the other hand when China wanted to give a message to Japan they flew their strategic long-range bomber near the Hokkaido Island the power projection in the South China Sea often sees strategic bomber's flying in that area in the context of India, if there's a discussion about India buying a strategic long link bomber the common argument against this point is that India is a mid-sized economy and does not require a strategic long-range bomber because of the cause of these strategic long-range bomber is huge and it will exert a massive strain on Indian economy the next argument is the potential enemy of India is right next to its borders and thus it does not require a strategic long-range bomber to reach the third and the most common the argument is the bombers are obsolete and they do not stand any chance in modern-day warfare today's fighter jets carry very long-range air-to-air missile and against these missiles the Bombers are sitting ducks before we talk further about bombers let's see this footage this is Russian tu-160 strategic long-range bomber and the country in which they are landing is Venezuela this is an incidence of 2018 when two Russian tu-160 landed in Venezuela and the the gravity of this situation can be understood by the fact that the tremors of this were observed in Washington DC yes the United States of America wasn't happy about this but couldn't do anything about it to understand this context let's see this footage and listen carefully to what Donald Trump is saying he's talking about military intervention in Venezuela The United States of America wasn't happy with Nicolas Maduro the president of Venezuela and was considering a military operation in Venezuela but after these two bombers landed in Venezuela the tone of the United States of America changed and they did not do any military intervention in Venezuela such is the power of a strategic long-range bomba that a country like the United States of America was intimidated the United States of America by far has the best Air Force in the world but still do bombers were enough to send message to the United States of America in modern times bombers are considered as principal assets and if you attack the principal asset of a country then it is considered as an act of war often while talking about strategic long-range people say that since the range of cruise missiles are very long now does we do not require any bomba because our cruise missiles can travel the range consider the country is negotiating with another one which does not have a big ad force and while ago shooting with the state head the state head of the the powerful country sends to bomba near the the shore of the smaller country these two bombers are the guarantee that this deal will be negotiated in favor of their the country this cannot be done with a cruise missile and when the same cruise the missile is on board this strategic long-range bomba the the enemy country does not know that which type of cruise missile is actually coming their way one with a 500 kilometer range or the other one with two thousand kilometer range let's have a look at a typical TU-160 TU-160 is a very capable strategic long-range bomber this aircraft has a crew of four of which two are pilots pilot and co-pilot the third one is bomba and the fourth one has defensive system operator the length of this aircraft is 54.1 meters while the wingspan is variable because this aircraft has feet banks the height of this aircraft is thirteen point one meter and weight as 110,000 kgs this bomber aircraft uses four power plant these power plants are NK 3:21 afterburning turbofan each engine can produce 130 7.3 kilonewtons as dry thrust and 245 kilonewtons with afterburner the range of this aircraft is twelve thousand three hundred kilometers this aircraft can travel with a maximum speed of two point zero five marks a single tu-160 bomber aircraft can carry six cruise the missile of KH 55 type the range of this the missile is 2500 kilometers so if this bomber aircraft are deployed in an area where advanced surface-to-air missiles are present along with advanced fighter jet in those cases this bomber aircraft can use its standoff weapons like KH 55 this bomber aircraft is highly capable strategic long-range bomber the Russian Air Force operates 17 m2 standards of tu-160 Russians call this bomba as White Swan while Nando calls it blackjack all the tu-160 of Russian air the force will be upgraded to m2 standards and the Russian air force has also ordered another 10 aircraft in the same standard in today's time Indian air force on Indian navy does not require these strategic long-range bombers but in future India will have to become like China assertive power in the region as previous Secretary of State of United States of America Jim Mattis once said meet everyone with a smile on face but keep a plan to kill them in your back pocket currently India looks at China and Pakistan as potential enemies but you never know which country will turn out Venezuela these kind of capabilities are not developed overnight and require huge amount of money and time and thus it is time for India to start thinking about it the new defense procurement policy allows India to take equipment on lease and these bombers could be taken on lease like Akula class submarines.
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