The photos in this edition are black and white.
Topics covered include design, development, structural detail, international production, trials, comparisons, and much more..
Together they use over 200 photos to illustrate the story of the Tu-95.
Yefim Gordon and Peter Davison are the authors of other Specialty Press titles such as Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot, Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum, and Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker.
The aircraft was revolutionary in the application of a swept wing and turbine powerplants.
It remained in production as a maritime patrol aircraft and cruise missile carrier more than 30 years after it was first produced.
The Tu-95 is a large, heavy strategic bomber with a slim fuselage, swept wings, and four powerful turboprop engines driving counter-rotating propellers.
Thus, the Tu-95 Bear and the Tu-142, its close relative, were born.
An important secondary concern became apparent: how to deliver that weapon to the target.
The goal was to create and test the first Soviet atomic bomb within a short time interval to counter a major postwar threat from the West.
During the 1940s, the Soviet government, knowing of the American nuclear program, elected to begin work on its own nuclear weapon program.
The photos in this edition are black and white
