#Soviet bomber

[dronescapesvideos]

An English Electric Lightning intercepting a Tupolev Tu-95. Cold War Era.

E.E. Lightning VIDEO ➤➤ https://youtu.be/mVJB_DvroJs

Tu-95 VIDEO ➤➤ https://youtu.be/KPHNmN9BaBw

[usafphantom2]

10 September 1952. The only F4U-4B Corsair fighter-bomber victory over a MiG-15 during the Korean War. USMC Captain Jesse G. Folmar of VMA-312 shot down a MiG-15 before being shot down himself. He survived and was rescued.

@ron_eisele via X

[enriquemzn262]

Gotta love it when military aircraft manufacturers decide to make passenger aircraft in the laziest way possible, by taking a bomber design and just adding a wider fuselage, for example:

The Soviet Tupolev Tu-104

Comes from the Tu-16 medium bomber

The Tu-114

From the Tu-95

And the Tu-70 prototype

Comes from the soviet copy of the American Boeing B-29 bomber, which also had an official airliner derivative

The Boeing Stratocruiser.

And since we’re outside the iron curtain

The British Avro York

Is a heavily modified variant of the iconic Avro Lancaster heavy bomber.

[nocternalrandomness]

US Navy F-14 from VF-114 escorting a Soviet Tu-95 Bomber over the Pacific Ocean - 1983

[carbone14]

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Parachutistes soviétiques sautant depuis un bombardier lourd Tupolev TB-3 - 1930′s

[supplyside]

Tu-22 Cockpit

[soviet-amateurs]

Natalia Meklin, the pilot of the 46 female night bomber squad (the night witches), author of the memoirs From Dusk to Dawn. 1945

[stone-cold-groove]

U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration’s CONELRAD brochure - 1957.

[blackros78]

A Soviet TU-95 Bear-H aircraft being escorted by a US Navy F-14A Tomcat aircraft, and a US Air Force F-15 Eagle aircraft after it was intercepted approximately 350 nautical miles southwest of Adak, Alaska on 29 May 1987.  Picture: US Navy

[lutnistas]

former Soviet long-range bomber base ( Dolon-Chagan / Kazakhstan )

[demonbloodenthusiast]

91 whiskey actually ruined my life because it got me into not one but TWO fandoms of hbo war shows and now my dad thinks i'm interested in ww2

[dronescapesvideos]

Tu-95 Russian Strategic Bomber | Red Bear Over Britain | Tupolev Turbopr...

[usafphantom2]

Tschechischer MiG 23

@Actuelle_LSK via X

[enriquemzn262]

So, do you know what happens when you let an aircraft design bureau known for making bombers, make an interceptor?

You get, from Convair, know for making the B-58 Hustler

the world’s first supersonic bomber

The F-102 Delta Dagger

And the F-106 Delta Dart

And from Tupolev, known from pretty much being THE bomber-maker of the Soviet Union, among them the Tu-22 “Blinder”

The Soviet Union’s first supersonic bomber, and the only supersonic bomber to be available for export customers, you get

The Tu-128, the world’s heaviest “fighter” aircraft.

Oh, and for the opposite, see what happens when you let Dassault, known for making France’s fighter jets since WW2

especially supersonic delta wing designs, you get

The Mirage IV, the world’s shortest-ranged nuclear bomber.

[nocternalrandomness]

USAF F-4E Phantoms intercept a Tu-95 Soviet bomber near Iceland (1980)

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