Strategic bomber Tu-95MS the exercises conducted launches six new high-precision missile with wings at the Kura test site in Kamchatka, said in the Ministry of defense of Russia.
" The strategic missile carrier Tu-95MS has carried out the launch of 6 new high-precision missile with wings air placement using multifunctional launchers-to-ground aircraft Kura test site. The crew has clearly worked out tasks on the flight, learning objectives at the landfill were amazed ", - quotes the messenger agencies ITAR-TASS. He noted that the number of missiles with wings was held on the last working day of the week within the flight and tactical exercises with the aviation squadrons of the air base Engels (Saratov region)." as part of the exercise involved 8 strategic bombers-raketonostsev Tu-95MS the Engels airbase. For the execution of tasks the aircraft took off from the airfield Ukrainka, " added the Commissioner of the Ministry of defence. According to him, the crew of the Tu-95MS held in the air for about 7 hours." Tu-95MS is capable of hitting cruise missiles important stationary objects of the enemy day and night, in any weather and in any point of the globe, " said the source. First it was claimed that in the process of the planned training sessions centuries Putin in may of the current year the Tu-95MS carried out a missile launch with the wings on the ground targets at the range of the Western military district. In January strategic bombers Tu-95MS was on patrol the skies over the Arctic, the Pacific ocean, the sea of Okhotsk, along the Japanese Islands and Sakhalin.

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