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🇷🇺 Tu-95 Bear
Air · Tupolev (tasarım) / Aviakor / Kuznetsov (motor) — Rusya · 1956 (Tu-95MS varyantı 1981; modernizasyon 2010'lar)
A four-engine turboprop giant bomber left over from the Cold War; its main job today is to be a flying missile rail that pours Kh-101 cruise missiles from beyond enemy range.
Specifications
- Type: Strategic turboprop bomber / cruise-missile carrier (NATO: Bear-H)
- Maker / origin: Tupolev design, Aviakor build — Russia (USSR)
- Dimensions: Length 46.2-49.6 m, wingspan ~50.1 m, height 13.3 m
- MTOW: ~185-188 t
- Propulsion: 4× Kuznetsov NK-12MP turboprop (15,000 hp each), contra-rotating 8-blade props
- Speed / range: Max ~830-925 km/h; range ~15,000 km (unrefueled)
- Weapons / load: ~20,000 kg; up to 8 Kh-101/Kh-102 cruise missiles (external pylons), Kh-55 in internal drum; 2× GSh-23 23mm tail gun
- Crew: 6-7
- First flight / combat: First flight 1952; first combat 2015 (Syria); cruise-missile strikes in Ukraine since 2022
Beats: B-52H Stratofortress (ABD) — benzer şekilde gövdesi amorti olmuş yaşlı bir füze platformu, ancak Tu-95 ham menzilde ve Kh-101'in standoff erimiyle rekabetçi kalır, Xian H-6K (Çin) — H-6, Tu-16 türevi olarak hem menzil hem füze yükünde Tu-95'in gerisindedir; Bear daha ağır seyir füzesi salvosunu daha uzaktan atar, Rockwell B-1B Lancer (ABD) — B-1B nükleer rolden çıkarılmıştır; Tu-95 hâlâ aktif nükleer üçlünün hava ayağı olarak stratejik caydırıcılık taşır
Loses to: Northrop B-2 Spirit (ABD) — gizli (stealth) B-2 savunmalı hava sahasına sızabilir; Tu-95'in pervaneli devasa radar/termal izi onu modern hava savunması karşısında savunmasız bırakır, Tu-160 Blackjack (Rusya) — aynı ülkenin süpersonik, değişken kanatlı, üretimi süren bombardımanı hem hızda hem hayatta kalmada Bear'ı geride bırakır, B-21 Raider (ABD) — yeni nesil gizli bombardıman, sızma ve nüfuz kabiliyetinde Tu-95'in turboprop neslinden bütünüyle üstündür
The Tu-95's paradox: it fights the 2020s war with 1950s propeller technology. With zero stealth it never flies over enemy air defenses; like in Ukraine it serves as a flying rail launching Kh-101 salvos from deep within Russian/Caspian airspace. Its real weakness is not the aircraft but that it cannot be replaced: the production line closed in the 1990s, and airframes destroyed on the ground in the 2025 Operation Spiderweb drone raids cannot be replaced. Peers like the B-52 are also old but rest on a far healthier support industry.
Related systems
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM
