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Tu-160 Blackjack video

By Pavel | July 31, 2006 on 11:36 am | In Aviation Video, Bombers, Oruzhie Rossii, Tupolev |

Right-click to download Tu-160 Blackjack video.
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Story about Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber creation. Actually, this is short history of Soviet bomber aviation development. You will see legendary Tu-144 creation process, some footages of Tu-16, Tu-95 and even M-50 in Tushino, on famous parade of 1961.
And, of course, unique footage of “Blackjack” by the NATO designation, or “White Swan” as Russian pilots call it. And I think such name fits this beautiful plane much better.
Russian langueage, “Oruzhie Rosssii” (Weapons of Russia) series.

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1. Holy crap, that’s incredible! Any chance of a translation?

   Comment by Steve — August 1, 2006 #

2. Interesting!

   Comment by Rebate — August 1, 2006 #

3. Well… there is always hope
   I’ll do my best, guys, really.

   Comment by Pavel — August 3, 2006 #

4. Thanks for your efforts Pavel!

   Comment by Steve — August 3, 2006 #

5. Awesome plane, only problem is I CAN’T play this damn video, what kind of codec is it? What kind of wingspan does this monster has? 150m?

   Comment by toker — August 6, 2006 #

6. Hiya all,

   Toker, you need to install the VP codec. Please go to the following website and d/l it.

   http://www.free-codecs.com/VP6_download.htm

   And by the way, Pavel, a great website and a gift to us less fortunate people, who were deprived of the great Russian aviation till now. Bravo. In German, we say, Sie sind ehrlich toll. Vielen Dank Herr Pavel.

   Thanks a lot for the effort.

   Best wishes,

   Mat

   Comment by Mat — August 9, 2006 #

7. hello

   your videos look great , but I can’t read them , could you be more specific on what to download to read them ?

   Thanks

   Comment by Maurice Goulet — December 26, 2006 #

8. Hi Pavel,
   I presume most or all of us can’t play this clip. Is possible for you to do something to enable us playing this video?

   Thanks,

   Comment by Mohammad Daud — May 27, 2007 #

9. Yes, unfortunately this video can’t be played in standard Windows Media Player 10. Instructions, how this video can be played you may find here, on the forum: Problems with playing video FAQ

   Comment by Pavel — June 1, 2007 #

10. Hello There!
    Does anybody knows, why Nato reporting name of Ty 160 is Black Jack? What does they mean under the “Black Jack” and why it applicable to this aircraft?
    For example Tu 95 reporting NATO name is ” Bear”. And it is easily to understand, because it looks like and sounds like the bear.

    Comment by Andrei — September 25, 2007 #

11. The story is much more simple All the NATO designations has the following logic behind it:
    B - bombers (BlackJack, Bear, Backfire)
    F - fighters (Fulcrum, Flanker, Floffer, Fishbed)
    C - cargo (Cock, Cossack, Curl)
    H - helicopter (Hind, Hokum, Havoc)

    Comment by Pavel — October 16, 2007 #

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