The Tupolev Tu-95 remains active due to its ability to carry a heavy payload over long distances. Adaptations of the Tu-95 include cruise missile deployment and maritime patrols, making it versatile.

The Tupolev Tu-95, dubbed the "Bear" by NATO, has soared through the skies since 1956. Starting production in 1952, roughly 500 bombers were created until production stopped in 1993.

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 ...

Tupolev’s most famous turboprop bomber is still the world’s fastest propeller aircraft. November 1952 saw the first flight of the Tupolev Tu-95 turboprop, the first Soviet intercontinental ...

Few aircraft are as distinctive as the massive Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear,” a four-engine Russian strategic bomber and maritime patrol plane with a gigantic unicorn-like refueling probe, giving it ...

Which is to say, the Tu-95 is Russia’s B-52—but one with a decidedly maritime bent and a habit of knocking at the door of coastal air-defense systems in Europe, Asia and North America.

Russia's Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers are capable of carrying out nuclear and conventional long-range strikes. Russian Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers fly above the Kremlin in Moscow on May ...

Russian long-range Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear” bombers launched cruise missile strikes against targets said to be controlled by Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the Syrian provinces of Deir al-Zour and ...

A Russian Tupolev Tu-95 (NATO reporting name: Bear) jet bomber, followed by fighters, fly over Red Square during the Victory Day Parade main rehearsals, May 7, 2022 in Moscow, Russia.

A Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear ‘H’ off the coast of Scotland in 2014. UK Royal Air Force Photo. A Russian Air Force strategic bomber has crashed outside the city of Khabarovsk, near the Chinese ...