[dila813]

I can remember these guys buzzing us far south of the equator.

It was always a wonder because they don’t have carriers so their range was spectacular.

They were noisy as hell, on the ocean we could hear them coming up to a full 30 mins before they were even visible. The vibration and noise must have been unbearable to the crews. Of course, they flew low to buzz us and take pictures.

The last one I saw was in 1993, after that they fell silent.

I bet our subs could hear them coming across the water for a hundred miles or more.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

They still carry a deadly payload of AS-15 cruise missiles. They guys can be over the sea or the Artic and fire these missiles at U.S cities.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

[Erasmus]

They were noisy as hell, on the ocean we could hear them coming up to a full 30 mins before they were even visible. The vibration and noise must have been unbearable to the crews. Of course, they flew low to buzz us and take pictures.

You sign up as a TU pilot, you end up deef. Worse than a Herkybird.

I think those 15 KHP Kuznetzov counter-rotators rip the air molecules apart. Maybe even the Oxygen and Nitrogen atoms.

≤}B^)

[jttpwalsh]

Could a TU-95 take off from, or land on a carrier ? Thanks for your service!