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By Tim Ripley 9th June 2022

… at Primorsko-Akhtarsk. For the first time in this war, Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire-C heavy bombers from the RuASF’s LRA … (AS-15 Kent) cruise missiles, launched from RuASF-operated Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H and Tu-160 Blackjack heavy bombers, along with 3M-54 …

By Paulo Mata 17th April 2022

… fifthgeneration jets relieved F-16s shadowing a Russian Tupolev Tu-142 Bear-F and Bear-J being escorted by at least one Mikoyan-Gruvich MiG-31 …

By Babak Taghvaee 14th April 2022

… by the Russian Army and cruise missiles launched from Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H strategic bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces … following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.   Combatting the Bear Everything kicked off at 0400hrs (local time) on …

By Khalem Chapman 12th April 2022

… resolve was widely underestimated. A RuASF-operated Tupolev Tu-95 Bear-H departs Engels AB near Saratov in central Russia with … RuASF-operated strategic bombers – such as the Tu-95MS Bear-H – have been launching conventionally armed Kh-101 …

By Tim Ripley 14th April 2022

… by the Belarusian Air Force and Air Defence Forces. A Tupolev Tu-134 Crusty transport aircraft was tracked landing … the Russians soon decided to act on their intelligence. Tupolev Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers/missile-launch platforms from RuASF …

By William Noble 12th July 2022

… was also on the increase, long-range examples being the Tupolev Tu-16 ‘Badger’, designed to carry an H-bomb, the Tu-95 ‘Bear’ with a range of up 9,300 miles and the Myasishchev M-4 … a new home at Crotone in Italy. Spain would now have to bear the NATO duties the F-16 wing had carried out, including …

By DENIS J. CALVERT 2nd March 2022

… called ‘hack the shad’ — go up against shadowing Soviet ‘Bear’ and ‘Badger’ maritime patrol, bomber and reconnaissance … shad’ — an 800 NAS FRS1 shadows a Soviet Naval Aviation Tupolev Tu-16K-10 ‘Badger-C’ during a mission on 19 September …

By Khalem Chapman 10th January 2022

… the continental US. It replaced the Indian Navy’s ageing Tupolev Tu-142ME  Bear-F  MPA fleet, which was retired on March 29, 2017. …

By Tom Kaminski 19th May 2022

… detachment, which made its first intercept of two Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear bombers over the Atlantic Ocean on October 20, 1987, …

By Vladimir Trendafflovski 8th March 2022

… handful of Antonov An-24 Cokes, An-26 Curls, Mi-8 Hips and Tupolev Tu-134 Crustys. At least two An-30B Clanks are known … air force will pose but a minor irritant to the Russian Bear should it decide to encroach further into what, at the …

By Alan Warnes 22nd February 2022

Air Vice Marshal Ian Duguid moved sideways from his role as the head of the RAF’s 11 Group, tasked with multi-domain integration, to the 1 Group, running the combat air force fleet and surveillance aircraft. We recently caught up him with him to find out more

By Alexander Mladenov 3rd March 2022

… in developmental testing carried out by manufacturer Tupolev at Kazan and Zhukovsky, with support from the 929th … state flight-testing effort. The deeply upgraded Tu-95MSM Bear-H bomber flew for the first time on August 20, 2020, and …

28th December 2021

… Soviet Ilyushin Il-38 May maritime patrol aircraft and Tupolev Tu-16 Badger bombers. Returning to the UK, ZE360 was … F-4J(UK) crew to successfully intercept a Soviet Navy Tupolev Tu-142 Bear-F during a quick reaction alert (QRA). Following a spell …

By Khalem Chapman 27th August 2020

… Russia’s first deeply modernised Tupolev Tu-95MSM prototype flew for the first time from the … by a crew led by Andrey Voropaev, a test pilot from Tupolev, during its maiden flight. According to the UAC, the … characteristics.” The Tupolev Tu-95 (NATO reporting name: Bear ) entered service with the Soviet Union in 1956. The …

8th June 2021

… numbers of Soviet longrange bombers, in particular the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, probing the UK’s Air Defence Region the unit was …