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 ... forces had of their potential Communist enemy was the long-range prob ing flights of the Soviet Union's Dal'nyaya
Aviatsiya — the DA long-range aviation
force — usually in the shape of the
mighty Tupolev Tu-95 Bear.
The Bear assumed a folklore of its own
within the Western fighter community,
tasked with intercepting, identifying and
escorting out of area the "unknown" radar
returns, code ...
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 ...2M Backfire
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A-7 Corsair
India
Russia
Russia
India
A-7E/TA-7E Corsair II Thailand
Australasia, N...
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 ...-6 (Tu-16) China
H-6/H-6 ill (Tu-16) China
Australasia, North & East Asia
Tu-16/ H-6 Badger
Tupolev Tu-22
Tu-22R Ukraine
Non-NATO Europe
Tu-22A/U Blinder Libya
North Africa & the Middle East
Tupolev Tu-95/142
Tu-95MS
Tu-142/MR
Non-NATO Europe
TU-142M Bear-F
Southern Asia
A-7 Corsair
Russia
Russia
India
A-7E/TA-7E Corsair II Thailand
Australasia, North & East Asia
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 ...MOSAERO SHOW REVIEW
Despite
swingeing
budget cuts, the
former Soviet
Union's
aerospace
industry
continues at
least to develop
prototypes.
Douglas Barrie,
Andrzej Jeziorski
and Alexander
...
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 ...PEOPLE
OBITUARY
• NIKOLAI KUZNETSOV
Russian aircraft-engine design
er Nikolai Kuznetsov has
died, aged 85. Kuznetsov set up
the Kuznetsov design bureau in
the 1940s, providing engines
for airc...
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 ...ate and Communist party officials were usually offered deriv
atives of airliners or combat aircraft for per
sonal travel. In the mid-1950s, Soviet presi
dent Nikita Krushchev flew to the USA in a
Tupolev Tu-95 bomber hastily given VIP
treatment. A six-seat Mach 3 supersonic
business jet based on the MiG-25 intercep
tor was offered between 1963 and 1965, but
the intended customer refused to...
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 ...TECHNICAL: AIR TRANSPORT
Pusher powered llyushin revealed
BY GUY NORRIS
Soviet design bureau Ilyushin has revealed details of a 19-
seat regional transport.
The smallest aircraft known to
be unde...
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 ...st blew over a Cessna
172 and a 182.
Bottom Kneddy: "Just like
when the CAAs 748 turned
on the ramp at Liverpool
and blew all those Post
Office bicycles over?
•fi JU /aJc OA t*o nywd' |
 ...he development, thought to
have been initiated in the late
1980s, is probably the recently
reported Raduga Kh-101 subson
ic-cruise-missile programme.
The missile is being tested from
a modified Tupolev Tu-95,
thought to carry either the Tu-
95MA or Tu-95PA designation.
The aircraft was photographed in
Ahktubinsk in July.
A large weapons pylon of a new
design is visible close to the fuse...
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 ...MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF THE WORLD
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FLIGHT
MrStMATTOMJkL r ).
General-arrangement drawing of the turbojet-powered Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot, based on latest information
nose, a feature retained on the F...
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 ... bomber projects aimed at providing its
long-range aviation units widi next-generation
strategic and theatre-strike aircraft.
Long-range strike aviation units are now
dependent on the obsolescent Tupolev Tu-95
Bear and Tu-22M3 Backfire bomber. The
handful of Tu-160 Blackjacks in air-force ser
vice remain at best a token force. Tactical strike-
aircraft units are dependent on the Sukhoi
Su-...
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Tupolev has offered several
upgrade packages which are
believed to concentrate on
improvements to the aircraft's
weapons-targeting systems and
electronic warfare equipment.
An already signed Tupolev Tu-95
Bear upgrade deal includes inte
gration of the Raduga Kh-55
(AS-15 Kent) cruise missile.
The air force has demanded
that the upgrade be based on
"purely Russian solutions" with
ou...
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 ...MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF THE WORLD
Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer
suggests an improved radar and
avionics fit.
Su-17/20/22 Fitter Late-model Fitter
variable-geometry ground-attack air
craft are powered by the ...
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 ...50nm) Mach
2.8-3.0 anti-ship cruise missile for
export from 2003. The 3t weapon is
being developed for use from ships,
submarines, aircraft and mobile
ground launchers. The Indian navy
operates Tupolev Tu-95 Bears and is
set to receive three Tupolev Tu-22M
Backfires. Both types could be
armed with such a weapon.
The missile, known as the PJ-10
but likely to be renamed, will pro
vide th...
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 ...S-X-19 appears to have
An artist's impression of the AS-X-19 carried on a Bear
been around Omlongwitha 1.2m
diameter, and has turbojet propul
sion. The AS-X-19 was originally
associated with the Tupolev Tu-95
Bear H and the Tupolev Tu-160
Blackjack. Given the dimensions of
the weapon, carriage on the Tup
olev Tu-160 seems improbable.
The missile was intended to
climb to an altitude of m...
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RAF Tornadoes intercept Soviet Bears
On September 10, when most eyes were on the Soviet presence at Farnborough, RAF Tornado F.3s of 5 Sqn at RAF
Coningsby were intercepting two Soviet Air Force Tupolev Tu-95 Bear Ds over the Norwegian Sea. A 101 Sqn VC10
tanker was scrambled from RAF Leuchars to rendezvous with the Tornadoes and a Leuchars-based Phantom flew
north to meet the Bears. Two US...
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 ...lBJ-\DLlilE-
Riihe defends Eurof ighter
GERMAN DEFENCE minis-[CI- Vblker Riihe gave "a sur-fengly robust defence" of the
urofighter project to members of
, nv.m parliamentary defence
MJiunittee on...
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 ...y the Soloviev D-30 turbofan.
NK-12 Single-shaft turboprop. The world's largest pro-
pelletf-turbine engine, driving eight-bladed contraprops,
powers the Antonov An-22 (4 X 14,795 e.h.p. NK-12MA),
Tupolev Tu-95 (4 X 12,000 e.h.p. NK-12M) and Tu-126 (4
X 15,000 s.h.p. NK-12MV). Another application, the Tu-114
commercial transport, was retired from service in October
1976.
NK-12MV Fourteen-st...
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 ...s by the Soloviev D-30 turbofan.
NK-12 Single-shaft turboprop. The world's largest pro
peller-turbine engine, driving eight-bladed contraprops,
powers the Antonov An-22 (4X14,795 e.h.p. NK-12MA),
Tupolev Tu-95 (4X12,000 e.h.p. NK-12M) and Tu-126 (4X
15,000 s.h.p. NK-12MV). Another application, the Tu-114
commercial transport, was retired from service in October
1976.
NK-12MV specification ...
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