TU-95 (NATO reporting name:Bear)

[lovuian]

Run time: 07:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faUvdTJRh48   Posted on YouTube: November 12, 2006 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 13, 2008 By DU Member: lovuian Views on DU: 320

 
The Tupolev Tu-95 (NATO reporting name Bear) is the most successful Tupolev strategic bomber and missile carrier from the times of the Soviet Union, still in service as of 2006 and expected to remain in service with the Russian Air Force until at least 2010 <1>. The Bear is powered by four Kuznetsov turboprop engines, each driving contra-rotating propellers, and remains one of the fastest propeller-driven aircraft ever built. To date it remains the only turboprop-powered bomber to have been deployed. A naval version is designated Tu-142.For a long time, the Tu-95 was known to Western intelligence as the Tu-20. While this was, in fact, the original Soviet Air Force designation for the aircraft, by the time it was being supplied to operational units, it was already better known under the Tu-95 designation used internally by Tupolev and the Tu-20 designation fell out of use. Since the Tu-20 designation was used on many documents acquired by Western intelligence agents, the name continued in use there.

This is in Russian but its video will give a good idea what the Bear is
This is designed to carry nukes
So when this gets close to our ships and US and our allies there is cause to worry

This is Bush's fault and its because he has instituted the Missile Defense in Poland
Putin isn't stupid he knows whats going on with BUSH & Cheney
He isn't going to be like Saddam

[thunder rising]

1. This is Bush's fault because he thinks that Osama is the GREATEST threat. He's wrong!

And two great nations with cultures dating back to the beginning of history are very patient in their plans.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I miss the good old days (post-cold war - pre-bat-shit-crazy)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vHfbpL0NDmw

(cool video, by the way. I loves me aviation videos!:hi:)

[lovuian]

4. I have to admit its a really cool video

I don't know Russian but when they loaded those bombs on there

Its pretty jaw dropping what those planes can haul

[mckara]

3. A Bear in the Air

The Bears that flew over the Nimitz battlegroup the other day were naval reconnaissance aircraft. Bears traditionally filled this role for the Soviet navy prior to the empire's collapse. Don't worry about them threatening the fleet. They're slow easy targets for fighters. We might want to dust off our long range air-air missile technology.

[lovuian]

5. Now theres a thought

but can the long range air air missile detect them if they have stealth technology?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. There is no way this happened...

Or happened in the manner they say it did. No way. You could not sneak a common house fly into a carrier battle group without them knowing it, especially not a Bear. They are as stealthy as The Empire State Building, or less. Radar signature that you can land a Sewer Hornet on.

Let us look at how a carrier battle group is configured, when it is underway:

Picket ships, with lots of very hot radar, in a loose ring as many as 250 miles out from the main body of the group. Spaced so their radar coverage more or less intersects.

In the main body, an Aegis cruiser, with a phased-array radar that can know what every sailor in the group had for lunch.

An E2C Hawkeye overhead, at all times, with an effective radar range or (classified) miles. Sometimes two, if things are hot. (classified) is another way of saying "one whole hell of a lot". Two fighters usually watching over the E2C.

Fighter cap of, minimally, two to four fighters in the air at all times, to intercept any threats well before they can get close to the carrier and make them go away, sometimes reduced to their base atomic structure. Or less. Plus ASW planes, with their own radar, as well as ASW helos.

This does not account for the submarines that also accompany a carrier battle group.

So this story wants us to believe that these two planes, with all the stealth characteristics of Mt. Hood, made it past all them megawatts of microwaves and overflew the carrier, when all those ships and planes are specifically there to protect the carrier from just such a thing?

Ohhhhhh Horseshit.