Originally Posted by
KenV
Depends a lot on how you define "longer". If longer means the latest calendar date then the TU-95 has a big advantage in that the last Bear H (TU-95MS) was built in 86 and the last Buff in 62, a 24 year difference.
Tu-95MS Bear H production ceased in 1992.
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88 Tu-95MS built by factory # 86 at Taganrog & factory # 18 at Kuibyshev-Bezymyanka. Initial production was at factory # 86 at Taganrog, but in late 1982/early 1983 it was transferred to Kuibyshev again, where it continued until 1992 (the production line was scrapped in 1995).
http://www.oldwings.nl/st/cn_explanation_location.pdf