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Originally Posted by Xenu
They have great acceleration and have been known to momentarily pull away from fighters.
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yeah right
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Performance
Maximum speed: 725 km/h (402 knots, 453 mph)
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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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