Tupolev Tu-95
The Tupolev Tu-95 is the most successful Tupolev strategic bomber and missile carrier from the times of the Soviet Union. Its NATO reporting name is Bear A.
It served as a base of multiple modifications for various purposes.
For a long time, the Tu-95 was known to Western intelligence as the Tu-20. While this was, in fact, the original Soviet Air Force designation for the aircraft, by the time it was being supplied to operational units, it was already better known under the Tu-95 designation used internally by Tupolev and the Tu-20 designation fell out of use. Since the Tu-20 designation was used on many documents stolen by Western intelligence agents, the name continued to be in use there.
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