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Old 06-16-2008, 06:56 PM   #12 (permalink)
Fanu

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They have great acceleration and have been known to momentarily pull away from fighters.
yeah right

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Performance
Maximum speed: 725 km/h (402 knots, 453 mph)
unless those fighters were WW2 mustangs, i dont see how they could get outrun by TU-95

shitloads of info on those russian planes on:

Tupolev Tu-95 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (as you can see there have been a number of cases where these planes had to be escorted by NATO planes)

what i found interesting:

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Introduced 1956 (MS — 1981)
The Tu-95 is still in service, as of 2008, and is expected to remain in service with the Russian Air Force until at least 2040.
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