Originally Posted by
DuncanDoenitz
I wonder how many western supersonic bombers have conducted a maiden flight from an (apparently) ice-packed runway in falling snow.
As others have said , it is the maiden flight of this particular air frame ,not the type. The type joined operationally in 1987. Even the Ukrainians had a few m but they sold some back to russia, and scrapped the rest under the
Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program