Bears in the Air

"glemon" (glemon) 03/09/2020 at 02:26 • Filed to: None

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Didn’t know they were still flying these things.

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ttyymmnn > glemon 03/09/2020 at 04:22

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Oh yeah. And they’ll be around a while longer. Nothing else has the range (it can fly more than 9,000 miles on a tank of gas) . In fact, they are starting to upgrade the engines in them.   That thing is a beast.

facw > glemon 03/09/2020 at 08:47

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Yep, definitely still flying. Of course unlike the B-52, which went out of production in 1962, the Soviets kept building these after they were no longer even Soviets, so while old, the newest ones aren’t terribly ancient. It’s good fun looking at pics of Tu-95 intercepts, since you can get nearly any generation of NATO jet interceptor with them.

ttyymmnn > glemon 03/09/2020 at 08:56

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Here’s how it looked from the other side.

ttyymmnn > glemon 03/09/2020 at 09:10

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I also found this. It looks like those two poor sods in the back of the Tu-95 are stuck there for the duration of the 11-hour (or more) mission. Unless there’s a tunnel that isn’t shown in this cutaway.

ttyymmnn > facw 03/09/2020 at 09:10

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https://oppositelock.kinja.com/1842208885

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 03/09/2020 at 10:08

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Surely there’s a tunnel...we had those going back to the B-29.

But being Russia, it could be every man for himself...

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 03/09/2020 at 11:02

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I tried to find a better cutaway that would show the presence of a lavatory in the back. If there’s a john, then I’m guessing there’s no tunnel.