Tu-95

Until now, it has been the world's only serial bomber and missile carrier with turboprop engines. It was a Soviet symbol of ensuring military-strategic parity in the Cold War. It remains in service as a carrier of cruise missiles, including such as the X-101, due to lower fuel consumption than jet aircraft, and most importantly, greater stealth from SBIRS satellites, capable of observing large jet-powered strategic bombers by exhausts from the latter. The National Interest notes that it is rather naive to consider the Tu-95 an "obsolete weapon", since in fact nothing is required of such an aircraft except to fly long range, and its real weapons are the latest cruise missiles - such as the X-101, which, when ranges of 5500 km allow the Tu-95 to “with impunity” attack targets outside the range of any air defense systems. The practical use of the Tu-95 in Syria proved that the aircraft is not an "abstract nuclear deterrent", but can actually be used in modern local wars.