Summary: The Tupolev Tu-95MS (NATO reporting name “Bear-H”), a strategic bomber of the Russian Aerospace Forces, continues to conduct flights near Alaska, demonstrating Russia’s commitment to its long ...

Even though the original Tu-95s first entered service more than 70 years ago, the aircraft was not deployed in combat until 2015. The Russian Aerospace Force’s Tupolev Tu-95 (NATO reporting name “Bear ...

Key Points and Summary: The Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear," a Cold War icon and the world's only frontline turboprop bomber, is facing an existential crisis in Ukraine. -The Threat: Used as a "missile truck" to ...

The intercept was carried out as the Russian Tu-95MS bombers and their escorting fighters transited the Alaskan ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone). On Feb. 19, 2026, the U.S. Air Force launched ...

Fewer than seven minutes pass before a Tu‑95MS strategic bomber flying at high subsonic speed can traverse Japan’s Air Defense Identification Zone into sovereign territory a window so small that Tokyo ...

The Barents Sea and the Arctic region are becoming the theatre of many close encounters between NATO and Russian aircraft these days. On Apr. 3, 2024, two Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic ...

The Ukrainian military has detected a take-off of nine Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the Olenya airfield in Russia’s Murmansk Oblast on the night of 28-29 December. Joe Burrow weighs in on ...

Three groups of Russian nuclear-capable bombers and fighter escorts buzzed the airspace in Japan's northern waters on Tuesday one week after similar long-range sorties near the U.S. coast off Alaska.

The flight lasted over four hours, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported MOSCOW, May 20. /TASS/. Two Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying bombers conducted a scheduled flight over the ...

The Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers performed a scheduled flight over the neutral waters of the Bering Sea. This was announced on February 20 by the Russian Defense Ministry. It is specified that ...

It is reported that some stages of the flight, the Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers were escorted by fighter jets of foreign states MOSCOW, August 14. /TASS/. Two Russian Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic ...