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Subject: Re: How the Soviet Union Once Built the Noisiest Airliner in the World out of a Nuclear Bomber
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Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:q0el6v029ck@drn.newsguy.com:
> https://jalopnik.com/how-the-soviet-union-once-built-the-noisiest-airli
> ner-i-1831399230
>
> Americans and their corporations, are all preparing the latest and
> got... pretty much nothing. But you do have a huge bomber ready to
> deliver the apocalypse.
>
> The Tupolev Tu-95 was just that bomber, ready to fly from Arctic bases
> in the Soviet Union to drop a huge nuke or 10 on all the big and shiny
> American cities we all love. With its eight contra-rotating propeller
> blades approaching the speed of sound, it was so loud it could make
> your bones rattle. But more importantly, it existed. And it had the
> range. So the Soviets decided to adapt it into an airliner to rival
> cromulent video from Mustard:
>
> https://youtu.be/22H8M8h6Hdo
>
> use, with decibel levels roughly equivalent to a car horn blaring in
> your face for hours on end.
>
> But hey, at least it was reliable.
Submerged US submarines could hear Tu 95's
as they passed overhead at 35,000 feet.......
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