Spores do not subside, who copied the strategic bomber from anyone - the United States has Russia or vice versa. After all, the B-1B and Tu-160, flagships of the United States Air Force and the Russian Federation, So “suspiciously similar” each other.
The Chinese Internet portal China.com tried to figure this out..
The portal calls these two aircraft the most important supersonic strategic bombers in the world., making up the main striking force of military aviation in the USA and Russia. However, they have many common design features., and looks similar in many ways:
Seen from above, both planes are extremely similar: Tu-160 is similar to the large model V-1B, or B-1B can be called a little version of the Tu-160.
People in China celebrate, that both planes have a variable sweep wing, cruciform tail shape and a number of other similar elements.
Determine by date of creation, who copied the bomber from whom, impossible, after all, and that, and the other started developing simultaneously, from 1969 of the year.
Chinese portal argues against version, that the "plagiarist" was the USSR. They pay attention to, that the predecessor of the Soviet Tu-160 was the Tu-22, also had a variable sweep wing. And after the Tu-22 KB Tupolev created a supersonic passenger aircraft Tu-144. According to the author from China, Tu-160 was created on the basis of Tu-22 and Tu-144, having absorbed the characteristics of these two aircraft.
He does not draw any conclusions., counting, that it’s already impossible to figure out, who copied the bomber from whom, Yes, and whether at all.