Tu-160 is the former Soviet Union in response to the late 1960s, the United States advanced manned strategic aircraft programs (AMSA) "B1b Lancer supersonic strategic bombers, and by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1970s started to develop after the changethe swept-wing heavy supersonic strategic bomber, the type of machine development, began in the Soviet Union in 1967, the government proposed a new strategic bomber project. Tu-160 and B1b are a product of the Cold War era, there are a lot of similarities.