Military correspondent Alexander Kots rejected the provocative opinion that Russia had lost nuclear parity with the United States in strategic aviation. According to him, there is no reason to believe so at all.
The journalist recalled that Russia has never had any parity with the United States in terms of the number of long-range bomber aircraft.
For example, according to open data, Russia has about 50 Tu-95s in service, about 20 supersonic Tu-160 aircraft, and about 55 Tu-22M3 bombers. All of them are capable of carrying missiles and bombs with a special thermonuclear warhead.
For comparison, the United States has about 40 supersonic B-1 Lancer aircraft, about 20 B-2 Spirits, and about 75 B-52 aircraft from the Cold War era.
But we still maintain strategic parity. The main striking force of our nuclear triad is the ground component. The air and sea components only complement it. Theoretically speaking, even the loss of half of our nuclear potential in counter strikes still retains the ability to destroy planet Earth several times.
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