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  1. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    I wonder if it is possible to infiltrate returning TU-95 fleet with our Hornets and then bomb their base when they land , like FiAF Do-17s, Ju-88s and Blenheims infiltrated returning bomb fleets after Helsinki raids at '44. Maybe trained crews and modern electronics of modernized Tu-95s would...
  2. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    Interesting view that NATO prints propaganda for Finns to boost up our hubris....I like you, you are pro Russian in a cool and intelligent way.
  3. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    The tonnage dropped to Helsinki was comparable to tonnage dropped to Dresden by Brits, Brits didnt miss... Ok, lets agree to disagree to not to derail more.
  4. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    You mean Stalin ordered them to miss delaberately? Drop bombs to the sea instead? Ok, there is no limit to the greatness of Stalin then.
  5. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    Thanks to the efficiency of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery and the deception measures that were employed, damage was limited. Only 5% of the bombs fell within the city, and some of these fell in uninhabited park areas causing no damage. In the order of 2,000 bombers participated in the three great...
  6. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    I am sorry, I do not want to insult you or derail this great thread. I just cannot take any threads of Russian strategic bomber forces seriously, but with humor...knowing from experience how effective they were in real life and what kind of reports were given to higher command from pilots. If...
  7. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    Yeah, I like how Russia modernizes their ancient hardware. All modernized "bears" are state of the art of warfare, all 3 of them... ( 3 not taken literally, but as a reference of the scale of Russian armed forces modernization ).
  8. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    Grandfather of "bear" and the coolest Russian plane ever. Especially because of the history of development The Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name: Bull) was a piston-engined Sovietstrategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid-1960s. It was a reverse-engineered...
  9. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    This flying around with Bears is just a stunt for domestic Russian audience, who every night watch at tv proof of their "new" superpower status. In real life those bears are in a suicide mission flying in western European airspace. As a plane it is nice though, every 12 year old boys dream when...
  10. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    You mean the sound of approaching relic?
  11. jouni

    Tupolev-95 Bear

    Nice plane and so loud that NATO used underwater listening buoys to find and track them...
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