Its not really that surprising, adding ejector seats or a podded crew escape system would add significant weight, cost and risk for the crew. Whilst the Tu-95 is fast and high flying for a propellor driven aircraft its flight regime is within safe paramaters for a normal parachute jump. Nevertheless the Tu-95 does have a rather unusual escape system for crew in the forward fuselage (the tail gunner has to bail out in the old fashioned way). On the floor of the flightdeck, there is a conveyor belt about 3 feet wide and 7 feet long. In the event of having to bale out, the escape hatch in the nosewheel bay (landing gear lowered obviously) is opened which starts up the conveyor belt. The crew are supposedly to role out of their seats onto the conveyor belt which then ‘conveys’ them to the hatch and out of the aircraft. The picture below shows the escape conveyor, I have no idea if it has even been used:
The 52 does provide ejection seats for all crew members albeit a couple are the rather dangerous downward ejection variant:
It is explained on the first paragraph…
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