Tu-160 strategic bombers successfully launch cruise missiles during Centre-2015 drills

MOSCOW, September 18. /TASS/. The crews of the Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" long-range aviation planes of Russia’s Aerospace Forces have successfully launched cruise missiles during the Center-2015 exercise, the Russian Defence Ministry press service told reporters on Friday.

"The long-range aviation crews of Russia’s Aerospace Forces practiced launches of airmobile cruise missiles within the framework the Centre-2015 exercise. The Tu-160 "White Swan" planes were involved in the drills. The crews of strategic bombers, taking off from the Engels airfield, performed an eight-hour flight over featureless terrain and successfully launched six cruise missiles at designated targets at the Pemboi range in the Komi republic," the Defence Ministry reported.

All the missiles hit the targets, the ministry said.

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