Why Russia’s Tu-95 Bear Is Still a Threat After 70 Years Russia has its own version of the B-52 that keeps on ticking. The Tu-95 has turboprops instead of jet engines, which is even more antiquated ...

Six Russian military aircraft were tracked operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone for about 2 1/2 hours ...

Introducing the Tu-95 Bear Bomber In order to counter the strategic bombers fielded by the U.S. military during the Second World War, Soviet engineers envisioned a homegrown counterpart.

And the Russians intend to keep the Tu-95 “Bear” bomber flying until the 2040s, making it essentially the B-52 Stratofortress of Russia. It is a bird that is designed to do a great—and awful ...