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 ...

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 ...

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.

An air defense zone was established around Alaska for the identification of all aircraft in a bid to boost U.S. national ...

In the frigid skies west of Alaska, a familiar script played out once again. Several Russian military aircraft entered the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), prompting a swift, calculated ...

Russia’s alleged request to station long-range military aircraft at Manuhua Air Force Base in Biak Numfor, Papua, has sent geopolitical tremors across the Indo-Pacific. First reported by respected ...

Two Russian Tu-95 Bears and two Chinese H-6 Badgers with Su-30 and Su-35 Flanker fighter escorts speared across the sky July ...

Engels-2, which sits about 450 miles from unoccupied Ukraine, is a key air base from which Russia has launched devastating attacks on Ukraine using its fleet of Tu-95 and Tu-160 bomber aircraft.

Engels air base hosts some of Russia’s Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-160 bombers, which regularly launch missiles at Ukrainian cities. As explosions rocked the base on Wednesday and smoke ...