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Although India has never mentioned presence about Tu-22M armed with KH-22m/AS-4
Found certain articales by Australian armed forces claiming, India was revamping its Tu-22m with major upgrades in Adaman Islands

Any sort of heads-up guys ?

Pigs Forever? Part 1 - 4 F-111 Life of Type; F-111 Missileers;Supercruising the Pig; Alternate Force Structures
Recent reports indicate that India will soon deploy the Tu-22M-3 Backfire, armed with the potent Mach 2+ 200 NMI range Kh-22M/AS-4 Kitchen cruise missile, while it is completing a major upgrade to the Port Blair runway in the Andamans. China has to date not responded publicly, but given its recent disagreement with the US over the EP-3C Aries collision and subsequent US arms sale to Taiwan, the odds of a Chinese Backfire buy look increasingly stronger with time. The superb combat radius of the Backfire allows its users to project force from forward bases such as Port Blair or Hainan-Dao directly in to Australian airspace. The speed and persistence of a Backfire armed with supersonic cruise missiles dictate early interception, a task for which the small F/A-18A is not well suited. An F-111 with a phased array and AIM-120 AMRAAM would plug this capability gap until the F/A-18A replacement is deployed post 2012 (Author).
 
The unofficial count of Tu-22m with India is 4
but a strategic bomber is against Indias policy, hence Tu-160 was turned down ... or was it ?
 
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