*poot poot*

Some self-defense is better than no self-defense at all. In the end - close encounters with NATO friends are daily routine. Gun is radar guided, BTW.

>Gun is radar guided, BTW.

Which is why they took them off the B-52, which was also radar-guided. A HARM saw the fire control radar, thought "OM-NOM-NOM", and suddenly friendly fire.

>Some self-defense is better than no self-defense at all.
Unless it is effective at shooting down AIM-120s diving down on it at Mach 3 it is really a moot point at this time.
But then again some Vietnamese MiG-21 pilot got himself downed by B-52 .50 tailguns so maybe someone would be stupid enough to get inside the gun targeting envelope.

Tail guns were already on the way out before that.

Luckily Russians have no idea how to into SEAD and have probably never successfully employed an anti-radiation missile in their entire military history.

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I mean planes do get inside the gun's range when they go escort Bears out of their territory, but no one is actually planning to shoot anyone down in that scenario.

Exactly, and if Ivan in the back seat was retarded enough to switch the targeting radar on it would be bye bye Mr. Bear while still not accomplishing jack shit other then starting a new international conflict.

Is this some kind of disco ball under its bottom?

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Its where the plane sticks its medals, it gets one for every crew member killed.

Leftovers from old times but now they use two special 23mm round types - PIKS-23-AM-GSh which is basically IR flare and PRL-23-AM-GSh which is chaff. Sounds stupid and outdates for anti-missile defense measure but I guess its just cheap, turrets already there anyway. Il-76 have the same tail turret for the same purpose

The Cold war was so lit

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The 90's was nearly 30 years ago though

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>The 90's was nearly 30 years ago though

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>TFW the 2000s are almost 20 years ago

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2009 was only 9 years ago

dumb frogposter

>mfw I've fapped to this picture several times in the past

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The Granit, a missile made in the 70s, has a home on jam feature.

jet blue is best girl

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fpbp.

Babushkas food cellar was never the same after the "Granit incident"

>30 years
>30 years
>MY EXISTENCE WHEN.

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Irrelevant to Tu-95 which is a strategic cruise missile carrier. Who the fuck are you going to shoot HARM at over Arctic?
>Russians have no idea how to into SEAD
Lol, fucking retard.

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It's MAWS.

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Actually they had anti radiation seekers for a lot of their AGMs.

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>Granit as ARM
You're even dumber than him.
eng.ktrv.ru/production_eng/323/511/

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Bad shop, F-4s are much smaller then a Tu-95

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Did it shit itself?

What missiles are those?

A common issue with alcoholics.

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This might be one of the best images i have ever seen.

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beautiful but deadly.

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Kh-101.

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>increasingly rapid fire of flares and chaff towards an incoming target

Sounds cool

Why all the different colours of lenses?
Different spectrums per lense?

I wonder when the F-35 will get its first TU-95 interception photo-op?

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>"soon"

And wouldn't it technically be a Tu-142 photo op?

So one of the crew members shoves his head into this dome and watches from where missile comes from?

TU-142 is the maritime version of the TU-95. The vast majority of the long distance missions outside Russian airspace is done by the regular TU-95's, so the odds of a TU-142 being the first to "deflower" the F-35 are rather low.

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Damn user...it could have SO been!

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I wonder if they ever sent up (or considered) some weird planes to intercept them just to fuck around?
NASA marked F-18?
Aggressor aircraft with "Soviet" markings?
B-52?

I am guessing the ranges required would limit the options the most, as well as the areas where they would be most likely to run into a bear.

That's an amazing picture. I always wonder what those encounters are like between US Fighter Pilots and the Bears.

I love TU-95, the pinnacle of soviet engineering. The entire history of them is so interesting.

You STFU, it will always be 10 years ago

Fucking checked, it IS a fucking disco ball!

This kills the Bear.

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I guess all those 10mm vs .44 magnum threads are done now.

>Aggressor aircraft with "Soviet" markings?
Oh God that would be great.

>when the F-35 will get its first TU-95 interception
Well, since there is not even a hint that it will ever be deployed operationally, i'd say never.

CHECK EM BOYS

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The F35 is already in use by the USMC and USAF and has been deployed to Japan (Okinawa). First ship born deployment should be coming up soon.

>Decommissioned 190 km range missile that barely ever worked kills a strategic cruise missile carrier with 5000+ km range cruise missiles
How does this add up in your head?

>Aggressor aircraft with "Soviet" markings?
You are like little baby, watch this.

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>using a BUFF to intercept a tu-95

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get out vodkachugger

I want to see one get intercepted by a B-2 or an F-117

Against a bear i wouldn't doubt that the AIM-54 would work, provided it wasn't way past its "best before" date and the motor actually fired that is.
IIRC out of the 3 that were ever launched in combat by the US two dropped like rocks and the third failed terminal guidance since the MiG-23 pilot it was fired at was smart enough to decide that continuing straight and level after the missile locked on him was probably not a good idea.

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPP

Imagine if they'd repurposed the Hustler as a high-speed interceptor/AWACS radar picket

the Tu-95 has been deployed plenty of times, user

That's not the point. Bears fly over Arctic and release their missiles 2.5-5.5k km from their targets. Phoenix was never intended to be used against Bears, it was against maritime strike bombers like Blinder or Backfire.

I know, i just replied to the "barely ever worked" part of your post.
Guess i should have pointed that out for clarity.

*blinds you spy pilots with a laser*

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Wrong thread Chang

>brap
>in stereo

Kek

This triggers the trypophobia

FUCK YOU
THE 1990'S WERE FIVE YEARS AGO

>Aggressor aircraft with "Soviet" markings?
Hilarious, but illegal. What you could do is use a MiG in US markings, that would be a hoot.

>china
>obviously congs

Aggressor fighters have pain scheme and markings that look similar to Soviet ones in color scheme and design.
Not talking about full on painting red stars on the wings, even if i have seen pictures of that too.
I just assumed those were for movie sets.