sabari
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Sir the end result is same the are similar mig21 of iaf which used number not as main steam fighter. t92 is just the fighter kept for number and limited useTu-95 in most cases would not even have to go out of the airspace of Russia, to bomb the living daylights out of Russian adversaries. Or perhaps Tu-95 will have to intrude, a little, for a little while, under cover of a few Sukhois with 11/12 AAMs each. That is more cover fire of highly accurate kind than what their adversaries would ever be able to stand up to. And under that overwhelming AAM superiority the Tu-95 would launch cruise missiles that have like ranges like 600km-2500km with upto 200kt 400 kg warheads. You can tie that up with our own efforts. Some years back there was talk of our scientists trying to make a 400 kgf engine. Well what can we say - a Kh55SM uses a 400kgf engine .
Tu-95 is just there way of fighting considering their limitations. They believe in crushing victory in near abroad and undeniable capacity in far abroad.
And they have been rather successful in their ways:
1) have held back nearly the whole world for several decades now to protect themselves
2) even while helping deal with genocidal maniacs around the world and
3) keeping colonizers busy for more than 50 years. I tell you this last act is something we Hindus will be a great beneficiary of in future.
You can make comparison checks with other big 6 countries/groups, areawise, (Russia, China, India, US, Eurozone NATO, GCC) and compare that against their respective defence budget sizes. For example we have 45 billion USD defence budget while Russians have 80+ but the Russians are protecting an airspace that is at least 5 times larger. Then see who is doing the best job of protecting their country and culture from among these 6 big countries/groups.
IIRC, Russians even have a law saying their weaponry will not be imported. It simply has to be Russian. Imagine how would India look if we could achieve something like that in India. We are still tottering but they have it already because they have never salivated for useless fluff and kept refining whatever they had.