The crew of the Soviet Tu-160 missile-carrying bomber

April 1990. USSR. Moscow Region. Guards Major, 1st Class Military Pilot, Crew Commander Valery Shcherbak (left) and photojournalist for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper Sergei Fedorov during an interview in the cockpit of a Tu-160 aircraft. The crew received the Soviet intercontinental supersonic strategic bomber-missile carrier with variable-sweep wing Tu-160, developed by the Tupolev Experimental Design Bureau, for trial operation. The exact date of the photo shoot has not been established. Alexey Zhigailov/TASS