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

April 1990. USSR. Moscow Region. Crew commander, military pilot 1st class, Guards Major Valery Shcherbak, his assistant, Guards Major Pavel Shchekin, navigators, Guards Majors Alexander Vishnyakov and Vladimir Chernov (from left to right), who 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 is unknown. Alexey Zhigailov/TASS