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Tu-95 vs B52: Which is best?

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    Tu-95 vs B52: Which is best?

    You choose the terms - which comes out on top?


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    I like the both. Good examples of how taxpayer's (or people's) money are used.
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    Tu-95 is beauty incarnate. But the BUFF wins hands down.

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    Buff hands down. The Tu-95 couldn't do the low level mission the B-52 has done and besides you could probably hear it coming!

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    I got to go with the Buff as well, for the same reasons that Joe has given.


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    I have to go with the plane that is still operational and is almost as old as I am!

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    Gotta go with the Buff as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skipperbob View Post
    I have to go with the plane that is still operational and is almost as old as I am!
    Which would that be.. they are both ancient and still operational?

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    Buff has been more versitile and changed missions like a stripper changes outfits. But that's not to say the Bear wouldn't/couldn't do the same if the option was available.

    On top of that, the Bear is a much better looking bird. Not saying much, the B52 is one ugly airplane.

    On looks, it's the Bear. On creative uses of a bomber that was supposed to be tossing Slim Pickens out of the bomb bay and ended up doing a lot more, the Buff.

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    Gotta go with B52 on this one.

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    I think overall the B-52, but one should not discard the Bear. At sea they were greatly feared back in the seventies, trained to attack enmasse with massed volleys of standoff cruise missiles, and fitted with credible recon and ECM suites. During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan they long range patrols overflying Pakistani airspace and a small contingent from Yemen (I think) caused us a great deal of concern
    Fr President Clemenceau’s speech to the AIF 7th July 1918: “ we expected a great deal of (Australians)… We knew that you would fight a real fight, but we did not know that from the beginning you would astonish the whole continent. I shall go back and say to my countrymen “I have seen the Australians, I have looked in their faces …I know that they will fight alongside of us again until the cause for which we are all fighting is safe for us and for our children”.




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    Maybe this argument will only be settled for sure when one is retired, leaving the victor.

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    The Tu-95 is more versatile as it has been sold to other countries, a civilian airliner version was made and a dedicated sub hunter version....plus over the horizon radar targeting and was used in Sigint and Elint missions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Basket View Post
    The Tu-95 is more versatile as it has been sold to other countries, a civilian airliner version was made and a dedicated sub hunter version....plus over the horizon radar targeting and was used in Sigint and Elint missions.
    I would not say that the Tu-95 is more versatile, certainly not because it has been sold to other countries. Being sold to other countries has nothing to do with versatility of an aircraft. The B-52 was a better weapons platform and overall a better airframe in my opinion.


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    The Soviets got more from the Tu-95 than the Americans got from the B-52.

    The Tu-95 and B-52 both had Boeing airframes!

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