Modern Heavy Bomber News, Pictures Thread (Non-Chinese)

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TU-95MSM new variants capable to be armed with new more big Kh-101/102 formers MS-16 upgraded MS-6 are not surely replaced by Tu-160M2

 

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B-1B weapons bays

 

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65 years!

 

[Jura The idiot]

65 years!

LOL wiki for amateurs like me:
First flight 12 November 1952

 

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65 years!

1952 impossible 1962 better

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in 1952 Soviets used Tu-4

 

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1952 impossible 1962 better

Photo from the early 1970s, iirc.
There are no known photos of the first prototype, it crashed later on.
Second one(and furst one with 4 NK-12 engines)

...and early series(tu-95A), notably different from the current ones.

 

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Tu-22M with Kh-22 and 32 more long range a little more fast but less big warhead in service since 2016 normaly

 

[Jeff Head]

Six bombers in service : B-52H, B-1B, B-2A, Tu-160, Tu-95MS-6/16 ( Known to NATO as the Bear H ) and Tu-22M3 all Strategic except the last intermediate range.
PS : China use a copy of Tu-16, H-6 intermediate range bomber.

B-52H, 78 in service
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B-1B, 62 in service
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B-2A, 20 in service
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A total of 160 US Bombers in service.

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As you can see...I completed my 1/72 B1B bomber:



I have now started on my 1/72 B-2 Spirit, and will have a thread on it soon, when completed:




...any how, thought you might be interested!

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