Two Tu-160 bombers to fly over Atlantic

MOSCOW. Sept 13 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian strategic bombers will carry out patrols on Friday, September 14, 2007.

"Two Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bombers will take off Engels airbase and patrol the skies over the Atlantic Ocean," Aide to the Russian Air Force Commander-in-Chief Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky told Interfax-AVN on Thursday.

The flight will last about 15 hours, he said.