This photograph captures a Soviet Tu-95 'Bear' long-range reconnaissance aircraft during a Cold War intercept, photographed by a U.S. Navy fighter pilot of VF-162 operating from USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) during the Vietnam War era. Such encounters between American carrier-based fighters and Soviet reconnaissance aircraft were routine throughout the Cold War, as both sides monitored and photographed one another's forces operating over international waters. Project: 218011