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Caught On Tape: First Footage Of Russian Strategic Bombers In Action Over Syria
On Tuesday we noted that Russia has, for the first time, used strategic, long-range bombers, in Syria.
These are the kind of aircraft that can deliver not only cruise missiles but tactical nuclear weapons. The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed as much when he said that Tupolev Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic bombers are now being used in the strikes against ISIL targets.
Tupolev Tu-95 Bear
Tu-22 Blinder
Tu-160 Blackjack
As you're probably aware, Russia had previously limited the strikes to Su-34s, Su-25s and Su-24Ms. But apparently, once Moscow got confirmation that the Russian passenger jet which went down over the Sinai Peninsula earlier this month was indeed destroyed by a bomb, The Kremlin decided to show ISIS what "bombs" really look like.
According to Shoigu, the involvement of the bombers will allow Russia to double the number of airstrikes it can conduct in Syria and on Wednesday, we get the first footage from the Russian Defense Ministry depicting the planes in action (and as we've all seen, the Russians love to show their equipment in action). Enjoy:
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Russian Nukes = Biggest Nukes ...as this "leaked" Russia Tourism Video clearly shows
On ZH it seems like when the French and American’s bomb, its asking for blowback from a US created or mythical enemy, but if the Russian’s do it, it’s time to pat Putin on the back.
Tu-95 was never used in action. This is the first real war bombing by this plane since USSR started to use it in 1957
... since creation almost 60 years passed to 1st usage
Ah, sweet sound of Tupolev! Dual prop engine is wonderful feat of Russian engineer!
Yes,,, years ago (1970's) I got to see and hear one. Very distinct smooth sound and a beautiful killing machine.
Best war machine marketing there is! Watch it perform in real live action!
Cooler vid of bombs and cruise missiles being dropped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrcQ48nvc8
Most of this vid is retread footage of the 3 different bomber platforms used time and time again. You see even see repeats of the same clips in this same video! Poorly executed, propaganda pure and simple. Funny, at least American propaganda isn't quite this transparent.
you've got to love the rotary magazine of what appears to be nuke sized block busters
Eez sheet plane. Same plane used in North by Northwest airport scene.
Ah yes Boris, nice plane indeed, butthe engines were designed by German team of ex-Junkers prisoner-engineers.
Those engines are probably breaking all kinds of emission regulations. You should inform the EPA.
Still cleaner than a VW
Please, you are spoil relish in Russian accomplishment. Is hard work to get German scientist make great Russian engineering.
Bear plane is almost as good as Boris' tank-plane.
Tupolev 95MS "Bear" is much better aviation craft, but Boris' favorite is still 1936 K7 Tank Plane because is so fantastical! Please also check out defunk Russia "ground effect" tank plane:
http://hit.pabaloo.com/russian-tank-ship-plane_world_120_14659
Amerika is glad USSR is not perfect before end of Cold War!
Just one of many examples of “The West” s experts saying something was impossible, and the Russians going ahead to produce just that item! The Ekranoplan (Caspian Sea Monster) carrying six Sunburn ASM’s at a speed of 400 km/h would have been a pretty effective weapons platform. Interesting that the smaller version (the A90 Orlyonok) used a venerable KH-12 turboprop for flight power (with turbofans to provide initial boost).
The Kuznetsov NK-12 is a very efficient powerplant (apart from being the World’s most powerful turboprop at 15000 SHP), which is one of the man reasons it has seen use in a range of airframes, not only the TU-95, but possibly more “famously” in the Antonov AN-22 Antei, which held a few World records for payload capacity and loaded climb rate (as well as the big advantage of operating off grass airfields or worse).
Just because the “Bear” is “old-fashioned” by Western standards, does not mean it is unable to do the task it was intended to do, and do it very efficiently. There is a lot of Russian hardware that superficially dates back to the Vietnam War era (their P-19 radar is still in use, as are close derivatives of the Spoon Rest and Top Hat radars of that era), however like most things Russian, outward appearances are deceptive. “Old” antenna and truck design, state-of – the- art systems inside, with extensive compatibility across all battle management platforms, old and current.
The “Profit-led” Western MIC just has to reinvent the wheel, since the new stuff “has to look New”. Russia simply adapts / refits / re-engineers existing kit, and so inevitably gets a far better “bang for the Buck”.
I would hardly call the bombing 10-20,000 completely mentally retarded kids who can't even understand they are working for the Khazarati "real war bombing" but hey... you work with the antique toys you've got I suppose...
If you don't kill them, how would you propose dealing with them? Group discussions? A time-out?
he said people from the kingdom of khazar you idiot, look about it and the newes genetical foundings on it ...
before writing about arabs you hate
I'm unclear here; if they don't know who they're workin- er, killing for, then bombing them is wrong? Would you recommend capturing them, educating them about who they are working for, and THEN killing them if they continued? Or what?
Bomb them anytime and anyplace as far as I'm concerned. You can't re-educate headchoppers high on religion any more than you can convince a devout christian or a jew that there isn't a god.
Just commenting on the fact that they don't have a clue who they actually work for and they are now sitting ducks.
It's not a war it's a turkey shoot.
We have to kill them to find out who they're fighting for.
Not as rerarded as your i would suggest
So, we should all tacitly believe this cobbled together video is evidence of Russia doing more bombing in Syria? Is there any on the ground confirmation of this increase in activity?
it is no more an antique than the b52 or b1
Tu 95 is a updated b29 with turbo props a d swept wings. The dam thing just works,. The USA needs to think more like that
We still have a couple B-52 wings. One at Minot and Barksdale in La. and that aircraft is of the same vintage.
That sucker is slated for service into the 2040's (if mankind hasn't destroyed himself by then). Talk about 'Bang for the buck.' They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Simple for you understanding unless afflicted by childhood iodine deficiency.
US created the problem. Russia fixing the problem.
Ask someone to explain if to understand this can not just all.
That is an important distinction.
My thoughts exactly, one works with the legitimate government of Syria on whose side the population is vs. Terrorists who are committing genocide agaisnt the population . The other works to create terrorist organization as a means to create chaos then bomb the poor civilians caught between the infighting of the different factions. I'll leave it to you to decipher which is Russian and which is US/Israel.
YUP....Russia bombing what we normally call terrorists to prevent Assad from being overthrown by said terrorists, while French / US bombing to support terrorists that want to overthrow Assad, let the Saudis build a pipeline. There may be a distinction there, if your parents did not grow up in the same household.
"Ask someone to explain if to understand this can not just all."
Hey Boris, this guy is steal your bit.
The airliner blown up was in fact blowback,,, they're not immune to it either.
The problem is since 1980 when has the amerikans, french or english not bombed?
And the difference is the Russians were asked for their help only after Syria tried for 5 years to eliminate amerikan armed and funded terrorists.
And Russia is bombing actual terrorists where they are, unlike the "coalition" bombing sand dunes in the desert which afterwards turn around and drop caches of weapons and ammo for anyone who finds it.
What is the French increase in sorties against ISIS other than 'blowback' for the Paris attack. French pilots can be shot down too, not quite sucidal but I wouldn't want to get shot down in enemy territory like the Jodanian pilot. We are all from various tribes. There is not a whole lot of difference in 'blowbackness' of different tribes. Just a difference in capability.
"On ZH it seems like when the French and American’s bomb, its asking for blowback from a US created or mythical enemy, but if the Russian’s do it, it’s time to pat Putin on the back."
The Russians didn't create ISIS nor any other terrorist group as a result of their initial aggressive actions. The U.S and their Israeli handlers did. Hence, well-deserved "blowback" to the West.
+1 yup. Its not complicated.
Well, of course. The Americans want Russia to get all the blowback possilbe. I think that Russia itself has already factored blowback into its strategy anyway. With Putin's approval ratings at 89% (and by implication his actions the same), I suspect that most Russians including Russia's Musilm population will cover his and the country's back pretty well. Russia is not a nation of lard-ass cowards like certain other unnamed nations. Its people can probably spot and distinguish real dangers from apparant dangers, real fears from media/government-manufactured ones.
Go, Vlad!
Called by syrian government for help ( honoring the pact btwn Syria and Soviet Union) meanwhile Western schmucks didn't even get UN apporval.
Rest US created isis ? You need proof ? Just check yesterday's zh article
Let it sink in : http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287...
Yeah...because he actually seems to be kicking some ass and if there is blowback, let the Ruskies take some heat.
Hey, I love your avatar. May I borrow it?
But ooh, are you gonna get it now from all the ZH "the CIA/US MIC are responsible for everything bad in the world."
Wit this mindset, somehoe Americans are capable of every evil known to mankind.
Yet no other humans on the planet are capable of this type of brutality (unless. of course, we force them to with our brutality).
For so many intelligent commenters on this site, this tunnel vision is really pathetic.
When they moved in with their normal fighters and fighter bombers I said they shut the game down. This is proving a point. I couldn't be happier.
ISIS blows up a plane full of civilians and boasts about it?
Legitimate self defense.
Kill them all.
Bomb those oil convoys.
"Highway of Death"
No hiding in Iraq.
Be sure to send videos and pictures.
Zees wus pre-flight briefing: https://youtu.be/1JIO-mU7mOs?t=30
Tu-160 is a beauty.
I like the TU-95 Bear. Double props and swept-back wings.
That Tu-95 is damn sexy
The long range rifle extruding from the cockpit is nothing to sneeze at...
You mean the aerial refueling probe?
They have an 8-9000 mile range without refueling.
I guess they planned on some really long missions then.
http://www.airforceworld.com/bomber/eng/tu95.htm
Interesting (and very informative), how "The West"s assessment of "old-fashioned" Russian capability was so very wrong.
Must have been a little embarrassing for the Tornado pilot to need reheat to keep up with a "propeller-driven" aircraft old enough to be it's Grandparent :-)
Wonder if Tupolev Design Bureau have any plans to try out a TU-95 or -142 with the new fanjets being developed by Ivchenko-Progress?? Their D27 can already produce 13,240 SHP on take-off, which is not so far behind the KH-12's 15,000 SHP.
Could make for a very interesting marriage
TU-95 sound of engines hearing from 100 km will create visceral fear like wing screamers Ju 87 Stuka.
Remains of ISIS will found with trail left from running in trousers soiled.
Their prop tips actually exceed the speed of sound when revved up which makes them pretty loud.
Nah. They're only scary if you're under their flight path and they are "pinching a loaf"...
;-D
I was under one and off to a side... not all that noisy either.
And cheaper then the US bombers and they actually get results
... cause the US weapon manufacturers want their "fair" share of war.
All of the above. They are all breathtaking.
I'd really like them to fly south a little more and hit the main source of ISIS funding. I can imagine the state department monkeys, Insain Dwain McCain and the rest of the satanic cabal are eating the carpets in their offices over this. Speaking of funding, Putin openly asked why the oil fields they control haven't been flattened already. Perhaps the big birds are on that.
Will you settle for oil storage tanks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EIwy2RoQo4
Or oil tanker trucks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYbiCGYy2c
source: https://twitter.com/mod_russia
Of course. Next stop, Ghawar.
Bitchin.
Interesting bit of design history re Tu-160 and B-1 similarities: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread199317/pg1
Michael Bay would be proud.
barbarous relics...
Oh yeah!! Nothing like F35s. Marvelous pieces of engineering. btw. Do they fly at all??
Well, at least the Chinese F-35 flys.
http://cdn.defenseone.com/defenseone/interstitial.html?v=2.1.1&rf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenseone.com%2Fthreats%2F2015%2F09%2Fmore-questions-f-35-after-new-specs-chinas-copycat%2F121859%2F
US better suited then to purchase from Chinese, even saving expenses.
30 Day Warranty! No ticky, no laundry!
I like how the F35 can't be seen on US radar, but can be seen on better russian radar. The fact that it's gun, when operational, will be tucked under the protective cover of tin flashing for safety, and have a firing speed of 6 quillion rounds per minute, and enough room for a couple of hundred rounds makes it the biggest abortion since homer simpson designed a car.
I've said it before, the priority of US defense efforts are to buttress the profits of private companies, not keep the broader US populace safe. Russia has probably caught up, and arguably in areas passed the West, on a fraction of the budget.
" the F35 can't be seen on US radar"
.. because US radar is made by Volkswagen.
Maybe it was the engines that were made by Volkswagen...leaving a smoke trail behind them.
unkie herb went bankrupt for The Homer. LockheedMartin/Boeing? not so much
truth is stranger than fiction as the idiom goes.
Regarding the VW radar, appaently it knows when the radar is being tested and sees everything. Under normal operations, anything with a smaller radar cross section than the hindenberg is no mas.
In all seriousness, I don't know the science, but there is some long wavelength versus short wavelength newman doo do robertson effect whereby the russians long wavelength radar can see how much change you have in your pocket.
One of the very first things the US did when starting the Libya (infamous “WMD” Desert Storm) campaign was to destroy a very old, Russian built radar installation. Not the “modern stuff”, the single “old technology” radar – because this old-tech, longer wave radar could acquire and track the “stealth” aircraft, that were otherwise not visible to centimetric / millimetric radars.
The Russians noticed this, and they have developed a number of new radars that rely on longer wavelength (UHF, sometimes VHF) , but which offer very good performance, and can defeat current “stealth” technologies. There are many Manufacturers, and one good example of Russian thinking is the Nebo-M System, which uses a range of frequencies to provide pretty exceptional targeting data.
(The system is fully all-terrain mobile too – time to deployment is minutes, not hours – just like their SAM and ICBM systems.)
you guys have no sense of humor...it was kind of joke, which i guess nobody other than me found amusing.
FWIW I did get it. I didn't down vote you.
I thumbed you up Jugdish cause it made me laugh!!!
Hey, don't knock the F-35. The acquisition committee of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan has already decided to acquire an F-35 for it's permanent collection. The chairman of the committee said the F-35 was worthy to be in the permanent collection because of its aesthetic appeal. He continued, "We don't need no steenin' flight tests."
Geeesh, too many people can't detect sarcasm.
Time for them to go back to reading Hannity's idiotic dribble and nod their head in agreement.
I still don't think Putin would drop a tactical nuke, makes no sense to waste Roman candles when bottle rockets will suffice.
I think I heard Randy Newman playing in the cockpit
Boom goes ISIS, boom Kerry
More room for you and more room for me...
I agree, I suspect the Americans are going to back down and Putin is going to give them an "out" to save face. I think they'll be back shortly with a new fight someplace else, but I think the Americans have sold the ISIS out.
"Sorry guys Putin has us by the balls we've gotta cut you loose. Good luck."
Actually, by declaring "war" on ISIS France opened the door for NATO to get involved.
Can't have a proper clusterfuck without inviting everyone to the party.
I thought that too originally 813kml but now I think this action from France is really just for the cameras...letting them save face. I think they accept that they've lost this round and its all for show and the NATO/US side will come at Russia and Iran someplace else, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Baltics etc. but I think both sides have agreed to clean up this mess with Russia taking the initiative on the ground and the NATO side left to doing some publicity shots for their press/media.
Anyone who thinks the frogs will actually get into a serious war with anyone has been hitting the wackyweed too much. The Frogs don't have the cohones for a real war.
I think that the US led coalition have done so much damage to the ME coutries that the only logical solution to terrorism would be to turn the whole ME into a parking lot
before or after we do Belgium in? Sorry Sudden Debt nothing personal :)
So. . .your thinking is in line with America's strategic plans for the Middle East.
Serious ordinance depending on how they are set up.......
Only disappointment was the lack of a blast. big planes = big bombs = big blast? ok it could be full of hand grenades
Well...they could simply be dropping crates of supplies to moderates.
One "strike" by a bomber is equal to ten to twenty "strikes" by fighter jets.
US should have used B-52's and an entire stockpile of quickly obsoleting dumb bombs on Fallujah. Still should, apparently.
How about some video of the results?
One A-10 at treetop level is worth 50 B-52 sorties.
Go Ugly Early: They spun up A-10s when the Poles got hit at FOB Ghazni in '13. I wasn't there but my buddies assure me they made quite an impression.
Once again Stocks go even higher on more war, more terror, and the VIX gets pounded because stocks are Safer now????
Not to pick the nit, but that is a pic of a TU-22M Backfire. It is a BEAST. I plane-nerded out yesterday reading about it, because I didn't even know it existed.
Isn't it curious how Russia's Tupelov Tu-160 strategic bomber looks so much like the US B1-B? The older Tupelov Tu-22 looks like they took one of their fighter jet and multiplied the dimensions by 4
The TU-160 was developed in 1981, dunno about the B1-B.
Consumer discretionary up?? The consumer will spend more based on the last few days news?
ISIS already knows what bombs look like. We've given them lots of bombs to use against Syria.
What makes attractive all these beauties is that they will likely fight and destroy joo-zato warplanes and targets.
Did anyone else watch that plane land at the end of the video and say to themselves "that was a very smooth landing?".
Better than most commercial flight I have been on.
It appears Russia is real time testing all their toys and showing the West they won't easily go silently into the night...
The Russians aren't too worried about stealth coatings or radar cross section on their planes. Look at those rectangular air intakes on the Backfire and the Blackjack. The Bear doesn't worry about stealth because they can be heard by submarines due to 8 props breaking the sound barrier.
http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/05/14/71/
Sure glad the Russians can get some ops testing and target practice in. It's been a long time.
NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY NIMBY
Develop a full blown civil war outside of UN mandate,bring refugees to America and....
NOT IN MY BACKYARD.Makes sense to me
Of course Obama will take in two or three or four families,and pay their healthcare.
And Jamie Dimon and Corzine will take in a couple of refugee families.Of course....
Has anyone besides me considered that about ten million people will need psychiatric care
when this is thru? And our veterans with PTSD? Their issues in the future?
Kick that can to our great grandchildren.....
Unless it's close air support, where the pilot can see the target, bombs are only as effective as the intelligence behind the targetting. Very few bombs are dropped/launched which don't cause a great deal of innocent death and wanton destruction (aka "collateral damage).
Bastiat
Looks like they were dropping cruise missles not bombs.
The TU-95ms is a lumbering turbo prop without any stealth deterrance. Ok to use against ISIS, but hardly a awful lot more.
They can be pretty effective when launching standoff cruise missiles with a 3,000 mile range.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/northcom-russian-cruise-missile-...
This is not year 1995. Update your manuals.
TU-95 only requires to get within range of cruise missile payload.
The noise level from the props could be detected by the SOSUS network as well as submarine passive sonar.
but subs don't carry AA missiles.
Tu-160 fired cruise missiles towards Syria from Russian territories not Iranian or iraqi ,mind you . It can even cover its targets in the continental US and way beyond just after takeoff from its bases in Russia.They should consider it an honor to be killed by the most beautiful bombers ever built
After Russia obtained proof that this was in fact a terrorist bomb attack on the plane. His statement went viral
roughly translated.
"To forgive the terrorist is up to God, It is my duty to make sure they go to meet him"
Bonus vid. Hitting ISIS in the wallet. Have destroyed over 500 oil tanker trucks and refinery strikes. Apparently Us technogy could not see these convoys. lol
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151118/1030342846/su-34-oil-isil-inf...
We have been waiting to see that for a long time. Russians seem to be very minimalist with their bombing. They don't raze the whole refinery or whatnot they hit key parts to keep it inoperative and then move along.
Wot?
US Warplanes Strike ISIS Oil Trucks in Syria
New York Times - 2 days ago
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US airstrikes destroy more than 100 ISIS oil trucks in Syria ...
RT
2 days ago
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US-led air strikes 'destroy 116 IS oil trucks' -
BBC.com
2 days ago
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U.S. Destroys 116 ISIS Fuel Trucks in One Airstrike
Breitbart
1 day ago
BBC ??? LMFAO ! Shill !!
Did it really take the US 13 months to locate those oil trucks?
Unbelieveable that those target were still standing after more than 1 year of USUS bombing of ISIS.
dumb bombs ?
Dumb targets.
Probably depends on what they're carrying, but I'd guess that big beast in the first picture is well suited to carpet bombing.
Relics from the last Cold War. Every one at least 35-40 years old.
Kudos to the Russian air force mechanics that can keep these thngs flying.
Keep laughing the B-52s are even older
Size comparison - a pair of Bears parked next to a B-52.
http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/190544.html
Difficult to get a real comparison as the Bears are further back, but they definately look a lot smaller.
Russia is known, fairly or not, for crappy engineering. People used to laugh and say that Russia's mechanical engineering was a big joke yadda.. yadda. That hasn't seemed to have been a problem lately. People said that downed airliner was a mechanical but that doesn't seem to be the case now either. There isn't much to look at in the way of real competition so far but their war birds seem to lay waste to goat herders pretty well and have been making some long trips in the process.
It's an inaccurate but persistent perception. The Germans were stunned when the relatively crude T-34 started kicking their asses all over the place.
Russian gear and planes are designed to survive in battle conditions (suck a bolt through the engine on takeoff? No problem!), whereas American planes are like Ferraris - high performance, but they're also high maintenance and they have to be babied.
The recent story that several Russian cruise missles crashed in Iran otw to Syria was probably pure propaganda. Do a little digging and you'll find a U.S. Military officer admitting they're way ahead of the U.S. in electronic warfare. "Eye watering" capabilty was how he described it, I believe.
Absolutely correct.
There is so much rumor-repetition, bias and propaganda. One branch of my work is in the design, development and testing of advanced weapon systems for the USA, so I know what I am talking about. The Russian military equipment is designed for ease of operation and maintenance by men with little to no technical education but adequate military training, under combat conditions. The Russian military equipment is not the most technologically sophisticated and not the highest capability or performance in most cases, with some notable exceptions, because it does not have to be - it is very highly capable, reliable, maintainable, and survivable, and when combined with adequately trained, highly motivated, tough Russian soldiers, it is extremely formidable.
Only a fool would launch into combat with the Russian military inspired by the delusion that the Russians have inferior equipment and that it would be a major weakness to exploit. You especially do not want to fight the Russian military inside Mother Russia, because their fighting men will derive such additional patriotic zeal that it would constitute a force multiplier, and they would never surrender or stop fighting. When fighting outside Mother Russia, if the Russian fighters do not believe in the cause, then they can be defeated, and they will retreat.
The USA and Russia must NEVER make war against each other - our countries have far more interests in common than basis for confrontation in the era of the explosion of the islamic cult.
The USA and Russia must NEVER make war against each other - our countries have far more interests in common than basis for confrontation in the era of the explosion of the islamic cult.
Agreed. Besides, that would mean the end of all of us.
German army lost more soldiers fighting for one house in Stalingrad than in taking over Paris.
Musta been a cat house...
Russian engineering is so bad that the US has to hitch rides to the
International Space Station using that technology!
Right? Funny how the US Congress just declared ownership of outer space, yet we've got to hitch a ride to get there. lol
This Solar Sytem, the Galaxy or the entire Universe (and all parralel universes)?
I guess every country on earth can pass a law exactly as the USA and claim outer space. USA dibs outer space. lol
Link?
Why Syria?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP3mXVRd89Y
Watch the video and find out. Syria, as described in the video, is the country we should be.
Those planes all look shitty imo.
Do they need to look pretty?
nevermind him, he thinks that holywood is reality.
It is a reality that the average american mind has been warped into a hollywood-xbox imagery loving organ. I hope their minds dont crash when the body bag count starts to pile up by reality. I have hopes that WWIII is gonna be quick and the demise of zionists will be sudden.
And that war is call of duty videogame.
Wait til you see them in action against zionazis. You wil L.O.V.VVVVE them.
Russia will be turning eastern Syria in sand, dead ISIS fighters, and insects!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d34_1447866394
Hitting tank farms and fuel trucks.
And no ISIS.