Russians have officially begun work on their next generation bomber...

Thanks to Filippo for the link!

Apparently this is going to be a long range "missile carrier" and not a penetrating bomber.

Just makes too much sense to me.

The biggest lie the US military foisted on the general public was the idea of penetrating fighters and penetrating AD/A2 defenses.

Why send a Marine where you can send a bullet?

Why send an airplane where you can send a missile?

Story here but much to my surprise the above pics are from the Russian Ministry of Defense so this vapor ware is starting to form up it seems.