The Tupolev Tu-95, dubbed the "Bear" by NATO, has soared through the skies since 1956. Starting production in 1952, roughly 500 bombers were created until production stopped in 1993. However ...

Thus, the Tu-95 is essentially the same age as Putin. The Tu-95 was developed to counter the American Convair B-36 Peacemaker. By the 1950s, this bomber could already reach the borders of the USSR.

MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. Su-30SM fighters within Kazakhstan’s Air Defense Force will follow Russia’s Tu-95MS long-range bombers for the first time during the exercise of the Collective ...

On July 24, U.S. and Canadian armed forces scrambled jet fighters when long-range radars detected strategic bombers nearing Alaska's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Two Russian Tu-95 ...

The patrol featured two Russian TU-95 bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers, with an escort of Russian fighters. American and Canadian NORAD fighters were scrambled to intercept the Sino-Russian ...

Russia’s Tupolev Tu-95MSM heavily upgraded strategic missile-carrying bomber will perform its first ... "I hope our Tu-95 long-awaited heavily-upgraded plane will take to the skies in Taganrog ...

The triple intercept came months after two Russian Tu-95 bomber formations penetrated the ADIZ back in June, coming within 32 nautical miles of Alaskan shores. The previous March, NORAD tasked F ...

MOSCOW--Two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers conducted a routine flight over the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, state-run TASS news agency reported on Thursday, citing the Russian Defense ...

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Tu-95 bombers of the Russian air force and the Chinese H-6K bombers flew over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea during an eight-hour mission.

The Russian TU-95 bombers were being escorted by two Flanker-D planes in the high north but were closely monitored by the Norweigan Air Force F-35s. Major General Øivind Gunnerud, Norwegian Air ...