Photos from the archives. Scan with a very mediocre negative. One of the very few flights of Tu-160 in Ukraine. In this case, preparation for the flypast at the airfield Chayka, near Kiev.
Mi-24RCh 'Hind-G 1': fitted with wingtip 'grapplers' or 'clutching hands' apparently used in connection with NBC technology, the Mi-24RCh was first reported in 1986 after the Chernobyl disaster