Promising heavy bomber PAK DA, developed by Tupolev, it is planned to adopt video conferencing in 2022 year, пишет Military Watch Magazine.
Together with upgraded Tu-Tu-160m2 22M3M (in the text – Tu-26M2M) PAK DA will make a real revolution in the "strategic bomber armed forces of the country". As expected, Russian plane will also become the leading global platform, which will be able to surpass developed in China and the US bombers H-20 and B-21.
It was originally supposed, it will be another modification of the "White Swan", but later it became known, that the scheme is "flying wing" will be applied in the PAK DA.
The new aircraft is not intended to overcome the enemy's air defense - it will be equipped with long-range missiles, allowing strike before entering the zone defense.
The use of "stealth" technology in its construction remains questionable, since Russian rely more on other security tools, EW means such as.
According to the author, again, likely, arm giperzvukovыmi raketami, which will further increase the range of defeat. As well as the "White Swan", he can carry on board nuclear weapons, but it is unclear whether it is ballistic or cruise missiles.
The article notes, The modified systems and components will be used to save money while creating missile, previously developed for other aircraft. speech, in particular, it is a question of locators with active phased array, which was equipped with the latest Su-57. Besides, A number of reports about some of the joint Russian-Chinese development for the PAK DA and H-20, what, by the way, says the growing military cooperation between the two countries.
While the new Russian strategy very little is known. But when you consider last year's statement by the Commander in Chief of videoconferencing, that the creation of the first prototype of the PAK DA is nearing completion, some new information about him can be expected in the near future, the paper concludes.
