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The Tupolev Tu-95 (Russian: Туполев Ту-95; NATO reporting name: "Bear") is a large, four-engine turboprop-powered strategic bomber and missile platform. First flown in 1952, the Tu-95 entered service with the Long-Range Aviation of the Soviet Air Forces in 1956 and was first used in combat in 2015.
Largest man-made detonation ever. Cleanest weapon ever tested; 97% energy from fusion. Full yield degraded by at least half. Dropped from a heavily modified Tu-95 Bear bomber, pilot A. E. Durnovtsev. One injury on ground. 131 (Joe 112) 31 October 1961 08:29:17.2 MSK (3 hrs)
The Tupolev Tu-95LAL experimental aircraft (Russian: Летающая Атомная Лаборатория, romanized: Letayushchaya Atomnaya Laboratoriya, lit. 'flying atomic laboratory') which flew from 1961 to 1965 was a modified Tupolev Tu-95 Soviet bomber aircraft, analogous to the United States' earlier Convair NB-36H. [1]
Kh-20 cruise missile was designed by M.I. Gurevich for the Tu-95 strategic bomber. Development began in 1954, drawing on experience with MiG-17 and MiG-19 fighters. Two Tu-95 were converted to Tu-95K missile carriers in 1955.
An Su-24 bomber, call sign White 49 was shot down by Russian forces near Izium; the body of pilot Oleksiy Kovalenko was found. [139] [140] [141] 23 March MiG-29 A MiG-29 piloted by Commander Dmytro Chumachenko from the 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade was lost in air to air combat by Russian aircraft in Zhytomyr Oblast. [142] [143] [144] 30 ...
This was true for the specially fitted, single Soviet Tu-95V bomber that test-deployed the most powerful bomb of any kind – the 50+ MT-rating Tsar Bomba on 30 October 1961 – as it had the anti-flash white on all its undersurfaces and sides. [3] Ukrainian Tupolev Tu-160 in all-over anti-flash white with pale fin flash
A Cambodia high school has been forced to close after thousands of explosives were discovered on site. According to reports, some 2,000 unexploded devices dating back to the civil war era were ...
Tu-114 Rossiya "Cleat" long-range airliner developed from the Tu-95; Tu-116 two Tu-95 bombers fitted with passenger cabins; Tu-124 "Cookpot" a short-haul jet airliner developed from the Tu-104; Tu-134 "Crusty" a rear-engine evolution of the Tu-124; Tu-144 "Charger" the world's first supersonic airliner; the second one is the more successful ...