These missiles have a range of up to 2,000 miles, which means that you can launch from over Los Angeles and hit targets in Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Detroit! They can use these long ranges when firing at stationary targets, like cities, which means that they would be on the outer edge of engagement by every fighter in our arsenal. We would have to have AWACS patroling out a long ways in order to pick them up in time to vector fighters onto them before they enter missile range.
What's really good news (just a hint of sarcasm) is the fact that a company in Ukraine sold some of these missiles to China and Iran a few years back. The Iranians would have to use the old P-3 patrol planes we sold them back in the 1970's in order to launch these missiles, but China has Tu-16 Badger bombers and is in negotiations for Tu-22 Backfires, Tu-95 Bears, and Tu-160 Blackjacks, all of which can carry these missiles.
You got it, pal. With those missiles plus TU-95’s good old range, even with their 50 years old technology those ‘Bear’ can still delivery huge blow upon her enemy.
China too has upgrade and modified their TU-16 or H-6 bombers to become a stand-off missiles platform.