2024-02-22 12:34:00
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Moscow. February 22. INTERFAX.RU – Russian President Vladimir Putin began a flight on the modernized strategic missile carrier Tu-160M, which bears the name “Ilya Muromets”.
The plane carrying the president took off from the runway of the Kazan Aviation Plant named after. S.P.Gorbunova.
Such supersonic aircraft can carry nuclear weapons and are an element of the so-called nuclear triad of the Russian Federation.
Earlier, Putin arrived at the runway of the Kazan Aviation Plant named after S.P. Gorbunov to take a flight on the Tu-160M, and climbed on board in a special suit.
As presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told the author of the “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” program Pavel Zarubin, the president decided to fly the day before after inspecting the Tu-160M and climbing into its cockpit. “Now there will be a flight,” Peskov said.
Peskov also told reporters that this flight would last up to 40 minutes. In response to a question about the route, he said: “Military secret.”
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