October 23, 200718 yr From DefenseNews Posted 10/23/07 09:03 Russia to Upgrade TU-95 Bomber AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, MOSCOW Russia has begun a "serious modernization" of its TU-95 strategic bomber, a workhorse of the Soviet and Russian air forces for over 50 years, the plane’s design bureau said Oct. 23, according to Interfax. The upgrade of the TU-95 MS, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. B-52 bomber, will include artificial intelligence technology, the news agency cited the president of the Tupolev design bureau, Igor Shevchuk, as saying. British and Norwegian fighter jets were scrambled this summer after TU-95 bombers were spotted close to Norwegian airspace, part of increasingly frequent long-range missions carried out by the Russian air force. Several such missions have recently been reinstated after their suspension following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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