#russian bomber

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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

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"The Bear"

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Cold war encounter

@ron_eisele via X

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🔴The Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bomber belonging to the Russian army

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Ukrainian engineers have started testing their home-made extended rage, high precision guided bombs by dropping them from the Su-24 Fencer bomber, September 2024. Source: NEWSADER

P.S. According to sources Ukrainian made guided bombs are significantly better. These bombs have a booster, longer range and more powerful explosive charge, that weapons supplied by the West...! These new aerial bombs have high accuracy and can be dropped from other types of combat aircraft as well. Moreover, the Ukrainians are free to use them against Russian forces and infrastructure objects deep inside Russian territory....

[loiladadiani]

Photographs: 1 and 2: Nicholas II inspecting the four-engine biplane 'Russky Vityaz' (In 1912, the Imperial Russian Air Service, formerly part of the Engineer Corps, became a separate branch of the army. In 1913, Igor Sikorsky built the first 'Russky Vityaz'; ) Grand Duke Alexander (Sandro) Mikhailovich played a role in the moving and shaking needed for this to happen.

Photos 3 and 4: Also, in 1913, Igor Sikorsky built his famous bomber aircraft, the "Ilya Muromets," which appears in the two pictures above. In the photo directly above, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich is standing in front/center of the aircraft, wearing his cossack uniform. Sandro is the tall man next to last at the extreme left.

Photos 5 and 6: Sandro inspects the officers and hangars at the Officers Aviation School.

Photo 7. Sandro distributing diplomas at the Aviation School.

And in the picture directly above, Nicholas II wondering what Sandro will come up with next.

The Imperial Russian Airservice: The beginning of Military Aviation in Russia during WWI

“What next!?” Whenever I look at the picture directly above, I can "hear" Nicholas II thinking just that, with respect to his cousin and brother-in-law's interests, actions, and experiments.

Grand Duke Alexander (Sandro) Mikhailovich was a restless man of many talents and interests. Although he pursued a Naval career, his major contribution to his country and rank may be his role in the creation of the Russian Military Aviation School and the Imperial Russian Air Service.

Sandro had followed with interest the increasing sophistication of aircraft and their use for military purposes. And by 1910-1911, he was probably bored with Cannes, Biarritz, and growing seedless tangerines in the Crimea. The time was ripe for him to embark on a "project." Because of his proximity to the Tsar (he was his second cousin once removed as well as his brother-in-law, and one of the few Grand Dukes Alix got along with), he had access to the Tsar's ear (historians are still debating whether he used that access to the best advantage of his country or merely to his personal advantage.)

So Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich filled a need by helping create the Officer's Aviation School near Sevastopol in 1910 and later becoming the Imperial Russian Air Service chief during the First World War. Alexander held the Imperial Russian Air Service Field Inspector General position until the Bolsheviks relieved him from his duties.

At the beginning of World War I, the Imperial Russia Air Service had the largest air fleet in the world. It would be interesting to find out what happened.

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Oh shit.

For real?

Amazing.

Get fucked!

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"What your favorite Bomber says about you" by historyinthedark: link

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Tupolev Tu-95, NATO reporting name: Bear

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

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Su-30 escorts a Tu-60 Bomber - 20 NOV 2015

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In memory of Roy Cross (1924-2024), the British aviation artist who passed away earlier this year, only one day after celebrating his 100th birthday. Cross is most famous for the many box top illustrations he created for Airfix plastic model kits in the 1960s & 70s.

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You never know when a Russian defector is going to show up at the border.

It’s a good thing some dumbass GOP governor was not at the border trying to make a name for himself.

A Russian military bomber engineer drove up to the U.S. Southwest border in late December, asking for asylum and offering to reveal some of Russia’s most closely guarded military secrets, according to an unclassified Customs and Border Protection report obtained by Yahoo News.

The man and his family arrived in an armored SUV and asked to be admitted into the U.S. because he feared persecution for participating in anti-Putin protests in support of Alexei Navalny, an imprisoned Russian dissident. He then told CBP officials that he had information wanted by the U.S. government.

He said he was a civil engineer and that “his past employment had included working ... from 2018 to 2021 in the making of a particular type of military airplane at the Tupolev aircraft production facility in the city of Kazan in west-central Russia,” according to a Jan. 11 unclassified CBP report obtained by Yahoo News.

“He described the aircraft type as ‘an attack jet’ and said it ‘was called White Swan-TU160, the largest military aircraft.’”

Hopefully the information the US got from this engineer can be used to help Ukraine fight off Russian aggression.

“The TU-160 White Swan, also known by the NATO reporting name ‘Blackjack,’ is reportedly the most advanced strategic bomber in the Russian inventory and has been also used in a tactical airstrike role in the Ukraine war. According to open-source reporting, a major new construction program of an improved version of the aircraft as well as an upgrade program of existing aircraft got underway at the Tupolev facility during the past few years,” according to the unclassified “CBP Indications and Warnings Daily.”

Obviously Putin would love to put Novichok or Polonium in the tea of this defector. So his identity remains secret for now.

Yahoo News is withholding his name and details of where he arrived and applied for asylum after several officials raised concerns about the man’s safety.

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The engineer is believed to be inside the U.S. and is still being questioned by U.S. officials. He is likely being questioned about the restart of the Blackjack production, and the revamped or upgraded versions believed to have been worked on during the time of the Russian engineer’s employment."

He is also likely being asked about matters unrelated to the bomber jet, which could include everything from the email system, software, staffing and manufacturer used by the aircraft production facility — information that could be used to carry out targeted cyberattacks or for intelligence gathering or other efforts.

So more bad news for Putin – wherever he’s hiding out these days.

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