This article is dated January 1, 2010, so I suppose it's been beamed to us from the future.
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/69867932.html#
Saw that while leafing through the mag at a store yesterday, almost had a 'happy accident' right there.
Too cool :thumbsup:
If you shorten the wings, delete the extra pods and parasite fighters and put the engines closer to the fuselage, looks like a Tu-95. Wonder if some espionage acquired to plans that led to the Bear?