Key Points – The Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear,” a Soviet-era turboprop strategic bomber used by Russia for long-range cruise missile strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, suffered a significant ...

The Bear was also developed into Russia’s first AWACs aircraft—the Tu-126—and the Tu-114 airliner which carried Khrushchev on a nonstop eleven-hour flight from Moscow to New York in 1959 ...

In November 2015, fifty-nine years after entering service, the Tu-95 finally saw combat as a bomber. Videos from the Russian Ministry of Defense in the fall of 2015 show them launching cruise ...