The Tu-95 took its maiden flight in 1952 and officially entered service with the Soviet Air Force a few years later. In 1961, Khrushchev revealed that the USSR was planning to detonate the most ...

The Tu-95 is one of the oldest designs in active service in the Russian Air Force. Driven by eight contra-rotating turboprop engines, it is the only propeller-powered bomber that remains in ...

Key Points – The Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear,” a Soviet-era turboprop strategic bomber used by Russia for long-range cruise missile strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, suffered a significant ...

Tu-95 Variants There was a multitude of experimental Bears, including the Tu-95LAL, which was powered by a nuclear reactor, and the Tu-95K, designed to carry MiG-19 fighters for airborne deployment.

Once again, the RAF releases air-to-air images of the long-range Russian Tu-95 bombers intercepted off UK earlier this week. On Oct. 29, the RAF scrambled two Typhoons on QRA (Quick Reaction Alert ...

The Tu-95 made its public debut during an air parade in Moscow in the summer of 1955. Foreign aviation experts were impressed with the aircraft, whose NATO reporting name is Bear.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has suspended all the Tu-95 Bear bomber flights after a strategic bomber suffered an incident in Russia's Far East. “The Tu-95 ran over the runway during ...

Russia's venerable Tupolev Tu-95 bomber is a gigantic, lumbering and slow behemoth that flies with turbine-driven propellers. It has an engine technology that the U.S. Air Force wouldn't be caught ...

Russian Tu-95 nuclear-capable bombers have approached US airspace near Alaska twice in the last month, and most recently on September 11. This happens often, but for a reason.

The Russian Air Force also operates the more advanced Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber. Russia’s Tu-95 fleet flies near and far for regular exercises, but also to project Russian power.

A Russian Tupolev Tu-95 turboprop-powered strategic bomber flies above the Kremlin in Moscow, on May 7, 2015, during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade. A strategic bomber with seven ...