The newest Tu-95MSM bomber has received a modern astronomical navigation system that allows it to navigate by the stars. Even another 'strategist' — the Tu-160 'White Swan' — does not have such a complex, reported on the Zvezda TV channel.

A representative of the developer plant explained that navigation accuracy has significantly increased thanks to this system.
We believe that in the future this device will be used on other types of long-range aircraft. On the Tu-160 [such a system] is also used, but of a slightly older type.
The enterprise clarified that the system in the Tu-95MSM is also needed to ensure the range, accuracy, and radius of action of the weapons.
In addition, the Tu-95MSM had its onboard gun mount compartment in the tail section dismantled. The compartment was converted into a technical room designed to prevent the bomber from rapid flooding in case of a water landing.
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