[at0mic22]

Modern missiles have been developed to a point where those bombers would not necessarily have to leave russian airspace to release them. It concerns me a lot if those supersonic bombers are still valid today, but taking the fact Russia has 4 new tu-160 in production, I shoulda be wrong

[greedo]

"new tu-160" is a stretch. These airframes were started during the time of the Soviet Union and are very very slowly being assembled. Russia has no ability to produce any of the TU-95/TU-23m/TU-160 past the few unassembled airframes it inherited from the USSR.

[at0mic22]

As far as I understood the biggest problem was not in the frame production itself, but in digitizing the Soviet era documentation for modern machinery.

They reported it done in 2018 and 2 new aircrafts are promised to be brand new. I doubt anyone would be able to reliably prove they coming with old frame or not.