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Originally Posted by Mohoender
Dragoon, you are absolutely right but we are talking Twilight and in Twilight it would have been strengthen insteed.
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No arguement here! Its what the Sovs would have kept in service that is the question. I'd expect the Blinder and Badgers to be retired in favor of more Backfires and the then-in-developemnt Blackjack. Certainly there would have been addition Frogfoots, Flankers and Fulcrums to fill out the carrier air groups.
The only real question is what they would have done with the various Bears? As old and wornout as the Badgers are, the Bears are in even worse shape. The new Be-42 Mermaid is one possibility, but the Soviets had nothing that could match the Bears 9,500km operational radius. And that means that they would have had issues with the Deep Atlantic recon/target designator missions that the Bears carried out.