The plant blown up near Moscow was working on a bomber to replace the Tu-95MS and Tu-160
It turned out that the Envoy program, or PAK DA, received even more vague deadlines for completion of the work
Our media, citing racist resources, have already reported information that the Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant in the city of Sergiev Posad near Moscow, which was blown up on August 9, 2023, was involved since 2019 in a program to develop a new strategic bomber under the code name “Poslednik”, better known in reality as PAK DA (Perspective Aviation Complex of Long-Range Aviation), also known as “Product 80”.
More specifically, this plant has a contract to “perform a component part of the research and development work on the cipher: “Envoy-1OEP/L” with a deadline of 2027 and a cost of 69 million rubles.
This detail is important because it illustrates that in reality, the virtual project of the racists called PAK DA, launched to create a replacement for the Tu-95MS and Tu-160, has received even more vague deadlines than one could have imagined. The Russian corporation Tupolev began designing the PAK DA back in 2009, but as of 2021, only one element of this project was ready – an ejection seat for crew members – and it was barely possible to draw the final appearance of the bomber.
However, all these nuances did not prevent Russian propaganda from claiming that in 2020 the construction of the first prototype bomber under the Poslednik program, also known as PAK DA, had already begun, and that the first flight of this aircraft was scheduled for 2025. It seems that even in the most favorable situation, the Russians hope to build the first PAK DA only in the 2030s.
In their sources, the Rashists stated that the PAK DA would have the following characteristics: takeoff weight – 145 tons, payload – the range was stated to be from 30 to 45 tons, flight speed – subsonic, range – up to 15 thousand kilometers, crew – 4 people.
Whether the Russian military-industrial complex is capable of implementing such characteristics at all remains an open question, if only because the Rashists are still working on the most important element for this project – the “Izdeliye rf” jet engines, which are to be created on the basis of the NK-32-2 engines (Izdeliye R), a modification of the power plant used on the Tu-160. Accordingly, until the engines are created, we cannot talk about any realism of the PAK DA project, aka “Envoy”.
But all of the above does not mean that at the moment Russia is in principle incapable of producing strategic bombers.
