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America Secretly Tried to Buy a Fleet of Soviet Nuclear Bombers, to Turn Them Into Satellite Launchers
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America Secretly Tried to Buy a Fleet of Soviet Nuclear Bombers, to Turn Them Into Satellite Launchers
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly independent Ukraine and the Russian Federation faced an important dilemma: what to do with the remaining fleet of strategic bombers? Ukraine inherited a fleet of 18 Tupolev Tu-160 “White Swan” (NATO designation: Blackjack) supersonic bombers. The Russians attempted to buy the bombers from Kyiv, which the U.S. viewed as an undesirable outcome. In a strange flurry of events, an American company…
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