Tu-95: l'aereo a elica che spaventa l'Occidente più dei caccia stealth da miliardi di euro

Thunder Engineering: The Secrets of History's Loudest Bomber. There's nothing subtle about the Tu-95. At the heart of this beast are four monstrous Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprop engines, equipped with enormous counter-rotating propellers. The engineering feat? The tips of these propellers exceed the speed of sound during flight, generating a continuous, deafening roar. It's such a loud aircraft that microphones on nuclear submarines submerged in the ocean can pick up its acoustic signature as it flies at 33,000 feet. But what it lacks in stealth is made up for by monstrous efficiency: an intercontinental range and a payload capacity capable of leveling an entire nation. A technical analysis of a titan of the skies who bent the laws of aerodynamics to pure Soviet will. Photos and videos used: RAF/MOD — OGL 2 Sergey Krivchikov - Russian AviaPhoto Team — GFDL 1.2 Royal Air Force (RAF) / Ministry of Defense (MOD) — OGL v1.0 Andrei Shmatko — Own work — CC BY-SA 4.0 Sergey Kustov — CC BY-SA 3.0 Pavel Adzhigildaev — CC BY-SA 3.0 AviationHeaven247 Chen Grichor Boda Frederic