[fredgrott]

there is a TU variant with swept wings, var geometry, and jet engines that replaced this plane that most Russian republics use

[dragonwriter]

> there is a TU variant with swept wings, var geometry, and jet engines that replaced this plane that most Russian republics use

"Most Russian republics"? So, more than half of the 1?

And "Tu" is just an abbreviation for Tupolev, its not a particular plane of which there are variants. Saying a "TU variant" is like saying a Boeing variant.

And there are two different Tupolev strategic bombers that meet that general description (the Tu-22 and Tu-160), neither of which is a variant of the Bear.

[kiiski]

More than half of the 21 actually. Russia is a federation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_Russia

[dragonwriter]

> More than half of the 21 actually.

So, name the 11 that have militaries that employ the bombers in question.

[kiiski]

No idea. I was just correcting the notion that there is only one "Russian republic".

[jmccree]

I guess with this line of thought, the US has 50 different militaries.