What an absolute aviation masterpiece this plane is. What a beast! Just listen to the mighty NK-12s! To think this can go to 925 km/h is insane. It cruises at around 700 km/h. THANK YOU FOR NOT USING MUSIC! So many other aviation videos ruined with "music". We wanna hear engines!
I seem to have read that it is the noisiest airplane ever built. Th Russians are not known for crew comfort, are they (the cabin is pressurized, yes? Is it heated?)? Was it designed by Gulag inmates? Do they still have vacuum tubes? But indeed it is awesome. I'd love to put on noise silencing headphones and maybe a WWII bomber jacket and take a ride. A Russian commercial pilot once crashed an Airbus 320 by letting his son play with the controls in midflight.
@@bradfordmccormick9501 Haha all true their planes are something else! I know the crash you mean, unforgivable how that pilot killed innocents (including his own family) by violating sacred rules about letting people mess about. That airplane was an A310 btw.
@@CyberSystemOverload Thank you, Sir! I only watched the docudrama on The Smithsonian Channel "Air Disasters". It's my favorite TV show. I no longer watch it so much because I know most of the episodes almost "by heart" (but not such details as you have fairly corrected me). I even forget exactly what the boy did which his sister had not done with the yoke that caused the problem. My real interest in those shows is in cases where somebody "cuts corners" but costs lives. Let me give you another chance to correct me: Boeing manager to his manager: "I have seen projects in the military stopped for lesser problems [than the 737 Max]" Senior manager back to his report: "In the military you don't have to make a profit." Once I corrected myself: I wrote in the guestbook at the Atomic Bomb Memorial in Hiroshima: "My father was an engineer on a B-29 that fire bombed Tokyo." Later I got his military record and it says he was a gunner and his only duty outside the continental United States was 1 month in Puerto Rico. But I have a picture of him and his crewmates and their plane from 1945 and on the fuselage is painted in large letters: "B-50". This does not make sense to me since I think the B-50 was from after the end of WWII. Also my mother wrote something about riding the train to go to my father in: "Alamagordo", but nothing about that on the miitary record I got.
@@bradfordmccormick9501 Have you seen YT channel called Airspace? The creator is an Airbus A330 First Officer and he uses the new Microsoft Flight sim to recreate aviation accidents. Very well done. Here is the link: ru-vid.comvideos
That was the USSR's tit for tat stop gap in dealing with America's the B-52... According to declassified documents, or so I read, the US lost as many as 65 slow subsonic B-52's during the Vietnam war to Russian SAM batteries and MiG-21's. Imagine if the Tu-95 would fare any better.
@@edisonone I'd pick the tu95 over the b52 anyway but the answer is no, radar wise yes it would fare better then a b52 but no the tu95 would be a target for the f4 phantoms, qnd who the hell wouldn't hear it
@@St.Matthew422 - So they were to fly around NORAD's Alert station (as North as you can go on land) and avoid the Distant Early Warning Line, the Mid-Canada Line, and the Pinetree line, avoid all airbases in Canada's west and the US's Northwest states, and just pop up off of California to attack the US Pacific Command?? Your weed is doubleplusgood.
@@doogleticker5183 Are you dumb? I said was, which means im talking about a 1961 or 1962 invasion, which means NORAD was no where near being built, also, cities would be the prior target, they wont care about the command if they can strike the US powerhouse, secondly you know what is KGB??????? In case of war they would definetly sabotage a ton of these radars in weeks since they had one of the best spies around the world ( even in south america in case they joined the war ) even in modern days this would happen but more efficiently since russia has a hacker army ( Ukranian war showed this to us ) also, california is the economic center of the pacific coast of the US, destroying it would mean that the US would lose a lot of its economic power and military, ( also, even japan had the idea of invading california in case of midway being a sucess ) the only way i see america defending sucefully california would be if they moved part of their air defenses to there or prevent the spy attack which I highly doubt since there was a whole community of pro-soviets spies in the US during the cold war, even americans ( and they had contacts with agencies and politicians ) america was good on paper, but could be cracked easily by corruption and scandal like letting nazis in their country to fight communism, this would definetly rage some european countries and part of the world
The Tu-95 is the Russian equivalent to the B-52 in that like its American counterpart it entered service in the 1950s and will continue to serve until the mid-21st century. Truly a great aircraft.
@@pauleyplay Not even close? that tu95 has to speed of 950km/h and b-52 has 1050km/h b-52 can fly 14 162 km tu95 can fly 15 000 km b-52 bomb load capacity=31tons+on board guns tu-95 bomb load capacity 20tons+on board guns
Those two old ladies have outlasted a lot of aircraft that came after them, crazy. The Tu 95 and the B-52 are simply like bottles of wine in how they seem to age better each year.
Fantastic film clip , what an absolute beast of an aircraft the TU - 95 is. I have always been interested in Russian Military Aviation, I once saw a TU - 95 on the tarmac in Indonesia in the 1980's and it was an impressive and unexpected bonus to actually see one. I will save this clip to my collection, thankyou.
Une merveille de la technologie Mécanique et Aérodynamique appliquée à l Aéraunotiques ! Impressionnant de recherches en de nombreux domaines avancées pour l époque et pourtant toujours présent ! Chapeau bas aux ingénieurs et pour un mécano de terrain combien j aimerais entendre ses puissantes contrarotatives en pleines puissances en take off! Merci Thank you merci a Tous !
Tupolev was born and lived in my city of Kimry (Tver region, Russia). There is a monument to him in the city square. There is also a monument in the form of a real Tu-124 in front of the bridge over the Volga. 👍
Skinny and sinister with giant counter rotating props , the Bear looks threatening just sitting still . And what's that incredible sound ??? Truly a frightening weapon .
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. It is expected to serve the Russian Aerospace Forces until at least 2040. The aircraft has four Kuznetsov NK-12 engines with contra-rotating propellers. It is the only propeller-powered strategic bomber still in operational use today. The Tu-95 is one of the loudest military aircraft, particularly because the tips of the propeller blades move faster than the speed of sound.
I love the menacing look the Russian military aircraft always had . No beauty but there is some sort of X factor going on. The TU-95 is a case in point. Great vid.
The fact that one these Tu-95 carried the world's most powerful hydrogen bomb, dropped it, witness its explosion, recorded it, measured it and flew back to base safely is enough for me to convince that this thing is a nightmare.
as the son of a cold war era B-52 pilot.... i'm obviously biased, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't love this plane. hope these take to the skies for many years to come👍🏻 just not over my house please🤣
They had one of these doing takeoff, landing and low fly-by at the Royal International Air Tattoo. It remains one of the loudest planes I've heard. The noise from the propellors felt like Cozy Powell doing a drum solo on your chest.
This was its biggest drawback. When it did sorties over the North Atlantic, submarines could hear it WITHOUT listening devices and would dive deeper and drastically change course to evade them.
In my city, this plane was handed over to the rescue services . Once I was near the airfield where he was based ,I heard his approach in almost a minute ,he flew over me like a fairy-tale dragon, 100 meters from the ground ... huge... covered the floor of the sky with my wings and this sound ....)
The venerable TU95, a plane that shouldn’t be but is,,,, Effien marvellous design and it makes me wonder about the stories coming out a few years ago about stress and fatigue cracking was a red herring
@@nikk2472 they are meant for high altitude ground attack, reconnaissance, and bombardment in areas like Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan where the anti-air threat is non existent at high altitudes
The MiG 25 has been retired in Russia, though curiously, Syria and Algeria still have a couple flying. Only its successor, the MiG 31, remains in service in the interceptor role.
С 1978 по 1980года, служил в Моздоке, вначале в штабе, а потом в комнате объективного контроля. Командиром полка был полковник Соловьёв. Хороший, требовательный и уважаемый командир. Так, что не по наслышке знаю о полётах ТУ-95. Молодцы Россияне, что сохранили и модернизировали такую технику.
I'm in the middle of the Great Lakes region and I was working in my back yard one day and heard what sounded like jet exhaust and propellers. I thought it must be a Herc because Canadian Forces C-130's sometimes land at our airport. I look up and see 4 propellers and swept back wings. I knew that could only be one thing, a Tu-95. This was back when US/Russia relationships were better so I figured it came from Oshkosh at the time. It was heading straight north and kind of low so I figured it fueled up at Kinross (formerly Kinchelo). Probably heading to Murmask.
...Tupolev Tu-95 gran avión, robusto y muy confiable, tengo 61 años y soy aficionado a la aviación, y no recuerdo de accidentes sufridos por un Tu-95, que es un avión más viejo que yo...
I am told that we are not supposed to like the Russians but they do make some beautiful aircraft. Would be a hard choice deciding having this or a B58 Hustler in my back yard.
My favorite Soviet-era aircraft. Bears, like B-36s, don't actually take off; they just taxi really fast, and the curvature of the Earth takes the ground out from under them 😀
...6 'babies' with a 65% chance of failure after launch, and with probability of hit radius of 50m (as opposed to Western ALCMs with a PoH radius of around 5-10m). Looks great in propaganda videos for the average person who knows little about military matters. Pretty useless in war fighting though...
А при чем тут Украина, у вас уже давно ничего не летает, хотя осталось от СССР 11 ту 160, вы их распилили по приказу из Вашингтона, даже продать их вам не разрешили.
Interesting that two old warbirds, the TU-95 and the B-52, are still at it six decades after they were designed. Fortunately, neither have been used for the mission they were designed for. Worth noting that the original spec for what became the B-52 called for turboprops.
That is pretty interesting. Makes sense in my mind though. The soviets seemed to tend to build a bunch of stuff that they knew worked and just keep building it with only minor changes to design. While the US seemed to re-tool and change the design or make a new thing completely. That is why the Soviet produced Nixie tubes up until the 80s, if it isnt broken dont fix it. Another good example is the UAZ, its still made today. Compare that to us military light vehicles.
@@josephvanas6352 The Tu95MS is a new aircraft, compared to the "Tu-95 Bear". The Tu-95 is not in Russian service since early 90s. The Tu-95MS is a modified Tu-142MK, made for long range Russian Aviation. New wing, new engines, new airframe and systems, first flight in 1979, production in Taganrog and Samara between 80s and middle 90s.
@@riccardosmirnov5063 ah alright, I know next to nothing about Russian or US military aircraft other than identification. That is pretty neat that it was updated that recently, well at least compared to the us with the B-52H being from the 60s
You guys cant imagine how loud they are in real life. Was riding near Kubinka air base while one of those was landing, almost exploded my ears with sound
I've always been fascinated by these - even when I considered the Russians to be an enemy in the 1990s due to the books in the library being from the 1980s.