You can only go so fast with propellers, as the propeller tips approach speed of sound and then life gets complicated.
And old assumption, widely held until the soviet Bear bombers shattered the misconception that propellers must remain subsonic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95
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And old assumption, widely held until the soviet Bear bombers shattered the misconception that propellers must remain subsonic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95