More than 60 years later…


The Tupolev bombers shown r descendants of the B-29/Tu-4, but more accurately, each succeeding model was based on the preceding 1.That chart suggests the origin of all Tupolevs is the B-29... where is the exaggeration?
A few flying boats & transports with bigger range were developed & used before WWII, so the Americans had not only Soviet land planes for inspiration:
With bigger range than what?
The ANT-25 had to land & refuel to fly back, so even as a bomber it would be 1 way mission if there were no airfields nearby for that.
So it wasn't just that flight that inspired to continue with the B-17.
Not all of them. I have an old AF magazine warning against viewing the Tu-95 as antiquated. Many other, if not most, original planes were modernized & redesigned but that doesn't cancel their origins:But western experts have always just seen it as a WWII B-29 rip off that didn't warrant being worried about.
Not all of them. I have an old AF magazine warning against viewing the Tu-95 as antiquated. Many other, if not most, original planes were modernized & redesigned but that doesn't cancel their origins:
An-2, An-24, Il-18, Il-76/-86, Tu-95 itself, Tu-104, DC-3, L-188, C-130,
C-141, B-707/-737, etc.
SeigSoloyvov wrote:You mean Tu-95MSM not MS.
ТАНТК им. Г.М. Бериева передал ВКС России модернизированный самолет Ту-95МС (бортовой номер "19")
Old Kh-45 that the article mentioned.
Hole wrote:
Old Kh-45 that the article mentioned.
GarryB wrote:Old Kh-45 that the article mentioned.
Looks a bit like the old SS-N-14... but it was a rocket with a torpedo on top for anti sub or anti ship attack...
In particular, state tests of the Tu-95MSM with the modified NK-12MPM engine are being completed, Interfax reports. Advanced engines will expand the range of the missile carrier and take on board up to 16 units of the latest X-101 cruise missiles.
https://topwar.ru/165102-rossijskie-stragegi-poluchat-novye-vozmozhnosti.html
magnumcromagnon wrote:In particular, state tests of the Tu-95MSM with the modified NK-12MPM engine are being completed, Interfax reports. Advanced engines will expand the range of the missile carrier and take on board up to 16 units of the latest X-101 cruise missiles.
https://topwar.ru/165102-rossijskie-stragegi-poluchat-novye-vozmozhnosti.html
We could potentially see Bears modified to launch air-droppable equivalents of Poseidon.Big_Gazza wrote:magnumcromagnon wrote:In particular, state tests of the Tu-95MSM with the modified NK-12MPM engine are being completed, Interfax reports. Advanced engines will expand the range of the missile carrier and take on board up to 16 units of the latest X-101 cruise missiles.
https://topwar.ru/165102-rossijskie-stragegi-poluchat-novye-vozmozhnosti.html
Good news, and yet more evidence that the Bears will be flying for decades to come. Idiots might disparage these aircraft as "Cold War dinosaurs" but they do their job exceedingly well. IMHO they won't be replaced by the PAK DA but will instead supplement the stealthy bombers.
Big_Gazza wrote:magnumcromagnon wrote:In particular, state tests of the Tu-95MSM with the modified NK-12MPM engine are being completed, Interfax reports. Advanced engines will expand the range of the missile carrier and take on board up to 16 units of the latest X-101 cruise missiles.
https://topwar.ru/165102-rossijskie-stragegi-poluchat-novye-vozmozhnosti.html
Good news, and yet more evidence that the Bears will be flying for decades to come. Idiots might disparage these aircraft as "Cold War dinosaurs" but they do their job exceedingly well. IMHO they won't be replaced by the PAK DA but will instead supplement the stealthy bombers.
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