Tu-95 Bear-D/E recon/communications-relay aircraft

The Bear-D/E variants serve as the long-range reconnaissance or communications-relay versions of the long-serving Bear aircraft. Other Bear variants act as bombers and the Bear-F as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft (see separate database entries).

The basic Bear design has a swept wing with a high aspect ratio and some anhedral set at mid-fuselage; the inner section has a 37-deg quarter-chord sweep, the outer section is swept at 35-degrees. Three low wing fences are...