The nearest point of approach was mere 30 nautical miles from American shores, but the skies above the Bering Sea were an ...

It doesn’t happen often that a radar screen comes to life with contacts from both an advanced Russian multirole fighter and a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The venerable Bear remains well adapted to the job of hauling heavy cruise missiles and keeping a watchful eye over the Pacific and Atlantic—especially when being ...

The Soviet Union was well known for its creative and potent weapons development. Both the United States and the USSR spent decades trying to conceive new and inventive ways to kill one another if the ...

Despite its age and shortcomings, the rugged and reliable Tu-95 “Bear” bomber is a symbol of national pride for Russia, and a recurring nuisance for NORAD. Less than a week after NATO claimed it ...

The U.S. sent fighter jets, yet again, to identify and intercept Russian military aircraft in the Alaskan Air Defense ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The Tu-95 Bear is the oldest aircraft currently in ...

In the small hours of 15 February, several Tu-95MS bombers took off from the Olenya airfield in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Subsequently, the Russians launched missiles, and an air-raid warning was ...

Exactly 61 years ago, on the 30th of October 1961, the world witnessed a first-hand Armageddon rehearsal. The Soviet Union dropped the biggest nuclear weapon ever made before and since – the Tsar Bomb ...

The Russian military has signed an order to upgrade its strategic Tupolev Tu-95MS bombers to the Tu-95MSM version. It is not known how many aircraft are covered by the contract, which was announced ...

Russian air force Tu-95 bombers have been deployed recently to air bases in eastern Siberia, the Pentagon said last week. Two of the aircraft have been temporarily stationed at a facility called ...

Russia’s Tu-95MSM prototype, the latest variant of the Russian strategic missile carrying turboprop bomber, flew for the first time on 22 August from the Taganrog Aviation Plant, United Aircraft ...