A completely new Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber nicknamed the ‘White Swan’ by Russian military pilots will make its debut run along the runway of the Kazan Aviation Enterprise (part of the Tupolev Aircraft Company) in December, a source in the domestic aircraft-building industry told TASS on Monday.

"The aircraft is in a hangar readymade and fueled. Before the end of this year, the Tu-160M will surely make a run along the runway. A flight is not planned," the source said.

The new strategic missile bomber has a "flexible’ date of trials that depends on the management that will attend the event, he said.

TASS has no official confirmation of this information yet.

United Aircraft Corporation Head Yuri Slyusar said on July 30 that the Tupolev Aircraft Company was working on assembling a completely new Tu-160M bomber "built from scratch." He also said that the Tupolev Aircraft Company was wrapping up the work to manufacture a second plane rebuilt from an old Tu-160 bomber.