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Its range and speed is very interesting and should alarm quite a few countries
http://www.dailymail.co....s-best-fighter-jet.html
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Just more sensationalism from the press!! 
The TU-190 'Blackjack' is NOT new at all, it first flew as a prototype in December 1981 and entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1987!! It is typical of a lot of Soviet military aircraft in that it is a blatant design copy (with the odd Russian twist added here and there) of a Western design - in this case the Rockwell B-1B Lancer or 'Bone' which has been around a little longer (had to for the Russians to copy it!!).
That photo the press have used (the white aircraft) is of the 1981 prototype. 
Kev 
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But it can outrun Britains best fighter, or looking at it another way, it just exposes another the short coming of our rapdily diminishing forces power.
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