Tupolev Tu-95

Tupolev Tu-95 (StreetView)
Tu-95 - initial production version - (in the NATO code "Bear") is a Soviet strategic four-engine turboprop bomber put into service in the 50s of the 20th century, which even in the early 21st century still serves in the Russian Air Force as a counterweight to American bombers B-52 Stratofortress. For the first time (and last time) turboprop engines and counter-rotating four-bladed propellers with a diameter of 5.6 m were used to power an aircraft of this category. The Tu-95 is a mid-plane with arrow-shaped wings that form an angle of 35 °.

A modified version of this aircraft, the Tu-95V, dropped the largest atomic bomb of all time, called the Tzar-bomb, on October 30, 1961, over the Soviet New Earth nuclear shooting range.
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