Tu-95 and the most amazingly brutal and hypnotic engine start-up ever

It's amazing. Growing up in a NATO county (Canada), we feared these aircraft, but we loved them too. What an incredible machine. Just look at it.

Can't get over how this plane is brutish AND graceful at the same time!

You only realise how big the plane is when the truck passes right in front of it. What a machine!!!!

Those contra-rotating props are mesmerizing!!! What a majestic brute of a machine !!!! I love it!!!!

This plane produces some of the loudest engine sound that has ever been heard (its properllers spin so fast that they create multiple sonic booms). One can imagine flying in this plane and hoping you don't suffer from long term hearing loss. Both this and the B-52 are very good examples of old but reliable

How many propellers can we fit on one plane? Russia: yes.

My ears are ringing just from watching the video. Can only imagine what it sounds like in person. Fantastic.

That plane like the B52 will be aroind for 100 years because nothing has been found to replace either plane. Sort of like sharks and crocodiles; a great design, no point in changing.

I am from Denmark, and I am in awe of this beautiful aircraft. Truly amazing.

Ту- 95 -Советский Красавец 🚩.

Офигеть, какой же он огромный , пользуемся пока наследием СССР.

Я видел как он взлетал на Камчатке. Там вокруге все дрожало от такой мощи.Гигант.

What an airplane! I can't even imagine how awesome that thing must sound in person. 😎

WoW.......If I'm not wrong she has four Kutznezow PTL engines with ( 14000 PS so 10300 KW per engine ) That are the strongest PTL ever..... Cruising speed nearly 850 km/h ..........It is a masterpiece of Russian aerospace industry !!! Thank you for sharing !!

I love this airplane. Most beautiful badass. Tu-160 and B-52 beautiful enough, but this plane is so brutal.

...lovely "Bear", like the "White Swan". It´s just impressive watch them there, "in the air". Many thanks for share it..!

Noisy and impressive...i like it!

Airborne, finally. Dude, this beautiful plane deserves a better video. Give us another one, please.

That is an exotic aluminum crypt,very elegant product of an era when we were practicing extreme discretion.

Beautiful plane. Respect from England.

This plane does NOT fly...it beats the air into submission.

I want one of these. Always loved the counter rotating props and the aircraft's design.

Never seen an TU - 95 start his engines up before....thanks a lot... maybe some day we could witness also a full cockpit start up with the pilots and the engineer reading checklists and flipping switches...Who knows someday.

I was there for MAKS 2017. Got my picture taken standing under the tail of the TU-95+ a picture with the aerobatics team from UAE

The forward march of the Great Bear. Amazing aircraft.

The sound of those engines into the wind is music to my ears...

I wish one of these things would show up at an Oshkosh show. I'd love to get a closer look at those mighty Kusnetsov engines.

A real beauty.Love the Bear❤😎👍! Nice vid mate!

Amazing plane! This beast is still used and deadly ! And I can only Imagine its loudness in person

Fantastic synchronicity with the props and camera frame rate...

один из КРАСИВЕЙШИХ самолётов..... грация,умеренная тяжесть,пропорции.... и не скажешь,что ему далеко за 50.....

That was awesome.What an experience to see both of these cold war vets up close like that.

The Bear has just the best optics with the tall landing gear, sleek fuselage, and those fabulous counterrotating props!

This beast is still good for another 20 years.

Saw one at RIAT in the 90s, they are so loud!!!! Monster of a machine

Довелось на институтской практике участвовать в сборке этих агрегатов. Горжусь!

До чего же красивая машина! Жаль, таких больше не будет.

I remember when these used to be scary or a treat. Not anymore. Theyre just beautiful to see now.

Ух...класс аппаратЪ! Спасибо ,видео отличное !

Cold War Bomber's. Like the B-52. Still flying. I would love see TU-95 one day. Thanks for this grate video.

It has that same awesome sound as the Boeing B-36 in flight! Kinda scary-sounding, but also just plain cool! Love this airplane!

This vid is like getting 2 planes for the price of one ! This is the definition of AWESOME . Wales UK

It is the thing that I listen to keep me concentrated when I'm studying.

Hypnotic airbird.

как же мне нравится эта птичка

Those propeller tips move faster than the speed of sound. The howl they made was legendary.

I was born and raised to loathe these things. But Wow, what a machine!

I saw one of these in St Petersburg. It was LOUD!!! Even from a mile away.

Only machines from the 1950's/1960's that still amaze: TU 95 and Soyuz.

Awesome video,thank you for posting!

IMO one of if not the most impressive prop driven aircraft of all time!!

Love this airplane, so want to fly one

That’s one beautiful plane!

i love this, b 52, tu 22 and the mi mil 24 they are so badass

The was a formindable foe when I served several decades ago. Like the BUFF he's aged with grace. Those eight hard points are menacing. Cool video. I've seen the Bear on the wing once. I can only imagine the sound of those counter rotating monster props.

Interesting that the Russians steadily moved forward with the improvement of the turbo prop engine and we Americans moved ahead with the pure turbo jet engines we have today. Another Russia exclusive on their monster size aircraft is the use of multiple air dams on the upper surface of the main wing structure. Being an A&E mechanic I understand the theory behind the air dams and it seems to work well enough that many of their aircraft have the dams in place. Very few American aircraft are designed with air dams on the main wing structures. I think the intercontinental Russian nuclear bombers could develop 15,000 shp per engine and at a lesser fuel cost than our pure turbo jet engines as in the B-52. Missiles designed by both countries have made the Russian and American globe trotting airplanes obsolete.

The TU-95 is actually slightly faster than a B-52. If you are a true aviation enthusiast, you respect the B-52 and the TU-95, both of them.

LOVE these giant monster turboprops!

That propeller design is just awesomr

🇷🇺 Жуковский мой город ❤️ как я по тебе скучаю 😥👍

I do remember bristol británnia. Amazing sound too

Love the contra-rotating props.

BTW, for those who don't know? The reason the plane is so noisy is not the engines. But the tips of the propellers as they break the sound barrier as they turn. And, this is not even close to the noisiest plane of all time. That distinction probably belongs to the XF-84H Thunderscreech. A single-engined plane whose engine noise/frequency could cause grown men to vomit/suffer seizures. Thanks for this. ☮

This plane yells the Russian national anthem in propeller language

It's amazing that the tu95 of all things is the fastest prop aircraft ever.

Beast. Nice sound

ahhh, the propeller engine sound makes me relax, but not only that, the tu-95 looks fantastic aswell

Beautiful old girl and the fastest military Prop plane and the only Prop bomber in the world still doing its job with a very good thrust weight ratio up their with top economy commercial air liners of today. Like B-52 old is better but this is one step further a prop and only 74 mph slower than the 8 jet engine B-52, coming in at 574 & 644mph respectively. Go Russia you made it very well.

the guy standing there really gives you the scale...what an impressive aircraft. awesome.

Настоящий медведь уважение

Как у нас в в Чаган-2. В 1989 году. До чего 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭👍👍👍👍👍👍приятно слышать.

I can't imagine the amount of sound this thing does being there....

Insane-looking thing! I'm happy we flew on C-130s when I was on active duty.

very amazing! thank-you very mutch!

The ultimate counter rotating turbo propeller death machine ever!!!!!

I’d dearly love to see a fluid dynamics study of those power plants. As a molecule of air passing though, you’d be very busy indeed.

One of the loudest aircraft you will ever hear. Counter rotating turbo props generate a lot of concussion waves at near supersonic speeds but they sound so awsome.

I've been inside its cockpit while visiting the Monino Air Base Museum the Victory Day (May, the 9th) and it was amazing.

Wow what a beast; apparently the prop-tips go super-sonic and thus the noise - those counter-rotations can't help; imagine the local turbulence ? The front view is mean. Imagine those racks bristling with Kh-55s... twin 23-mm cannon in tail ! nice post thanks !

This one has two props on each engine that are counter rotating. I believe these are single shafted engines, similar to the Rolls Royce Darts. The Pratt & Whitney engines of the DeHaviland Dash-8 are double shafted free turbine engines. It's funny how the 60 cycle flicker of the computer or TV screen creates optical illusions of the props going slow or backwards.

...tambien los conoci en una revista AVIACION, son una bellezas estas maquinas.

Amazing aircraft. True beauty in function!

This thing NEEDS to be in War Thunder as a heavy long range bomber or something

They must have a couple of flight engineers just to keep those blades happy. You would think that counterrotating props would cancel some torque, but by the way that rudder was being worked, there must still be a bit of torque there. Beautiful airplane.

Now this bird is absolutely stunning

Красотища!

Id love to see this bird at a airshow here in the states.....what a beast with flair!

такие машины поддерживают паритет и мир на планете Земля!!! ... Бравo конструкторам и создателям!!!

Я служил и летал кормовым стрелком на дальнем востоке !!!

I was a radarman on a US cruiser in the late 60s. We used to track these things in the Mediterranean. A few times they flew over our ship, one of the noisiest aircraft I ever heard.

The Chuck Norris of airplanes.

From Vikipedia: The design that eventually became the NK-12 turboprop was developed after World War II by a team of Russian scientists and deported German engineers under Ferdinand Brandner, who had worked for Junkers previously; the design bureau was headed by chief engineer Nikolai D. Kuznetsov. Thus, the NK-12 design evolved from late-war German turboprop studies. This started with the postwar development of the wartime Jumo 022 turboprop design that developed 6000 eshp in a 3000 kg (6,600 lb) engine. The effort continued with a 5000 ehp engine that weighed in at 1700 kg (3,740 lb), completed by 1947. The evolution to the TV-12 12000 Ehp engine required extensive use of new Soviet-developed alloys and was completed in 1951.[1] The NK-12M developed 8,948 kW (12,000 ehp), uprated in the NK-12MV to 11,033 kW (14,795 ehp) and reaching 11,185 kW (15,000 ehp) in the NK-12MA. The NK-12 remains the most powerful turboprop engine to enter service although the Progress D-27 and Europrop TP400 have come close to this (in 1982 and 2005 respectively). Another engine of similar size, the Pratt & Whitney T57 with 15,000 shp and 5,000 lb jet thrust, ran 3,100 hours before being cancelled in 1957.[2][3] The NK-12 powered the Tupolev Tu-95 bomber and its derivatives such as the Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft and the Tupolev Tu-114 airliner (with NK-12MV), which still holds the title of the world's fastest propeller-driven aircraft despite being retired from service in 1991. It also powered the Antonov An-22 Antei (with NK-12MA), the world's largest aircraft at the time, and several types of amphibious assault craft, such as the A-90 Orlyonok "Ekranoplan".

Remarkable combination of incredible power paired with incredible reliability.

Спасибо за всё, самые лучшие самолёты ,, СССР и России Ура Ура товарищи....

My God, I think this thing is actually noisier then an 8 engine B-52.

5:09, that few seconds there shows a lot in the background

What a beautiful aircraft design.

Beautiful aircraft !!!

Класс !