What the Tu-95MS is made of

0 documented parts, from recovered wreckage. Each part gives its marking, maker and country where known, and links the record it comes from. The system itself: Tu-95MS.

Sources

Reported parts

  • Engines — Four Kuznetsov NK-12MP turboprops, ~15,000 hp take-off power each, driving eight-bladed counter-rotating AV-60N auto-feathering propellers source
  • Radar — Obzor-MS navigation and attack radar on the baseline Tu-95MS, replaced on the Tu-95MSM by the Novella NV1.021 passive electronically scanned array source
  • Self-protection jammer — SPS-160 Geran-series jammer for defence against guided missiles, alongside a computer-controlled Meteor-NM ECM system source
  • Warning receivers and decoys — Avtomatika SPO-32 / L150 digital radar warning receiver and APP-50 chaff/flare dispensers source
  • Navigation — KRET ANS-2009 celestial navigation system and BINS-SP-2M strapdown inertial navigation system, which gives navigation data in the absence of satellite navigation source
  • Modernised avionics (Tu-95MSM) — S021 navigation system and Meteor-NM2 airborne defence complex, with NK-12MPM engines and AV-60T propellers that cut vibration by about 50% source
  • Internal launcher — Rotary launcher in the bomb bay for six Kh-55/Kh-55SM/Kh-555 cruise missiles (Tu-95MS6) source

Part records and photos: HUR War & Sanctions, Ukraine's Defence Intelligence database of foreign components found in Russian weapons, and the other sources named on each part. A marking, date code or country is given as the source records it.