On Jun 30, 12:55 pm, Dan wrote:
William Black wrote:
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:18:15 -0700, Tiger wrote:
Tu-95 have been active in other nato areas. They don't need to fly to
Alaska to take pics of F-22's. They can go to Google......
They want to collect things like reaction times, radar frequencies and
pulse rates, and stuff like that. You can bet that those old Bears are
packed up the gazoo with ELINT gear as well as the usual bomber stuff.
I would imagine all the bomber stuff went out of the door to make room for
the operator positions and all those computers.
Do they still use tail gunners in Bears?
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired
DEpends on the mod. Check out the Bear G