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Tu-4 in-flight refuelling testbeds (four different systems were trialled) [29] Tu-4 radiation reconnaissance aircraft [30] Tu-4 communications relay aircraft [30] Tu-4A Nuclear capable bomber used to test Soviet RDS-1, RDS-3 and RDS-5 nuclear bombs. The standard Tu-4 was not capable of carrying these weapons. [31] Tu-4D Troop transport (300 ...
The Tupolev Tu-91 (NATO reporting name Boot) [1] was a two-seat Soviet attack aircraft built during the 1950s. It was initially designed as a carrier-borne aircraft, but was converted into a land-based aircraft after Joseph Stalin 's death in 1953 cancelled the aircraft carriers being designed.
Tu-90: prototype turboprop-powered variant of the Tu-16, 1954; Tu-91 "Boot": prototype naval attack aircraft, 1954; Tu-92: initial prototype of the Tu-16R, 1955; Tu-93: proposed version of Tu-14T powered by VK-5 or VK-7 engines, 1952; Tu-94: prototype turboprop-powered variant of the Tu-4, 1950; Tu-95LAL: prototype nuclear-powered aircraft ...
Tupolev Tu-76 military transport version of the Tu-4; also known as Tu-4D; Tupolev Tu-79 Tu-4 with M-49TK engines; Tupolev Tu-80 long-range bomber derivative of the Tu-4, precursor of the Tu-85; Tupolev Tu-81 initial prototype of the Tu-14; Tupolev Tu-82 experimental swept-wing jet bomber; Tupolev Tu-85 long-range heavy bomber derivative of the ...
Even before the first flights of the Tu-16 and Tu-20/Tu-95, Tupolev was working on supersonic bombers, culminating in the unsuccessful Tu-98. Although that aircraft never entered service, it became the basis for the prototype Tu-102 (later developed into the Tu-28 interceptor) and the Tu-105, which evolved into the supersonic Tu-22 bomber in ...
The KJ-1 was the first-generation AEW aircraft developed by the People's Republic of China.According to Chinese government claims, a single KJ-1 would have functions equivalent to more than 40 ground radar stations, but the test flight in the early 70s experienced severe mid-flight vibrations that could not be solved, and the development was stopped later amongst the political chaos of the ...
Video and photos from the scene showed the aircraft engulfed in flames and smoke after it crash-landed on Interstate 75 near Naples, on southwestern Florida's Gulf Coast, and came to rest beside a ...
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