The Russian Tu-95 bomber, due to its flight range, was and remains a strategic threat to the United States, writes The National Interest (TNI).
The TNI material notes that the Tu-95 combat aircraft can fly to the United States without problems.
“The designers preferred a turboprop to a turbojet engine, since it allows the aircraft to travel more than 13,000 kilometers,” the publication points out.
The Tu-95, which entered service in 1956, continues to serve in the Russian Aerospace Forces today, the article says.
“He more than makes up for the lack of grace with a killer potential. The aircraft’s engines and its ability to carry a huge amount of ammunition make it an excellent weapon decades after the bomber was first used in a war zone,” writes TNI.
Earlier, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, Yegor Chernev, in an interview with the New York Times newspaper, said there was a growing fear in Ukraine that the army would soon begin to lose control of settlements if Washington postponed the allocation of new military assistance to the Ukrainian government.
