# Tu-95 'Bear' for sale **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028 "2014-03-06T17:48:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028/21 "2014-03-07T00:09:17Z")
I wonder what it would take to convert to a TU-114? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028/22 "2014-03-07T05:33:34Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > I wonder what it would take to convert to a TU-114? Well, two Tu-95s [were converted to stopgap "Tu-116"s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95#Tu-116) with passenger compartments—some of my sources are saying for up to 30 passengers. So, at least you could plausibly do it well enough to seat enough people for a decent concert tour. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028/23 "2014-03-07T10:59:18Z")
Thanks. I saw the Tu-114 had a wider body, was wondering what other options there were. They’ve been way ahead of me on this, those Soviets. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028/24 "2014-03-07T12:01:27Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Thanks. I saw the Tu-114 had a wider body, was wondering what other options there were. They’ve been way ahead of me on this, those Soviets. That’s been going around, lately… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028/25 "2014-03-07T13:11:15Z")
> [@](#): > > …manufactured in 1987 and has been flown 454 hours and 24 Minutes of the estimated 5000 hours… Yeah, right. Show me the CarFax. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028/26 "2014-03-07T13:17:35Z")
Only flown by a little old Soviet pilot to Sunday morning Party meetings. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028/27 "2014-03-07T23:46:24Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Buy it and I will shoot it down with my ME-262 > > ::lottery fantasy:: > > **Capt** I’d be very curious to see if you could catch it, considering that the Bear could outrun the Swallow (to be fair to 262, it entered service 10 years prior to the Bear). Then again, you could always anticipate the flight path and pounce it as it flew past. As for what to use this thing for, it could probably carry air freight (though bombers and freighters are designed with fairly different goals in mind, meaning conversions between the two are rare), or be used for making war movies and air shows. Or just use it to go out for a much more expensive version of the [Hundred Dollar Hamburger.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_hamburger) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu-95-bear-for-sale/683028.md?page=1)