>>216004854 (OP) >80 years old
To keep an airframe serviceable for such a long time is literally only possible in the first world, Cold War really produced alien tier technological marvels, maybe that was humanity's peak
>>216005403
I mean yeah aerospace tech has always been consistently pushing the cutting edge and it stands little chance against modern air superiority aircraft, but considering the poverty and technological gap during the Cold War amongst nations it's really something to produce stuff(s) like this
>>216005349
The cold war did produce flying manned machines whose speeds are still unmatched and will be for the foreseeable future. As for a B-52 or a Tu-95, those are more like reliable old cars. Surely possible and even feasible to design and make today, but there's no incentive to