The first deeply modernized Tu-160M ​​began flight tests

The upgraded Tu-160M ​​during the first flight

Flight tests of the first prototype of the deeply modernized strategic missile carrier Tu-160M ​​began in Kazan. The aircraft made its first flight on February 2, 2020 from the airfield of the Kazan Aviation Plant. This was reported by the press service of the UAC (United Aircraft Corporation).

According to the report, the first flight of the modernized aircraft was 34 minutes, it took place at an altitude of 1500 meters. During the flight, updated systems and equipment were checked, the flight went as normal, all updates worked without comment. The strategist piloted the crew under the guidance of test pilot Zhukovsky flight test and development base Henri Naskidyants.

As explained in the UAC, on this prototype Tu-160M ​​installed new flight and navigation equipment, airborne communications system, control system, radar station, electronic countermeasures complex. At the same time, new NK-32-02 engines (Series 2) have not yet been installed on the aircraft, which are being restored to serial production in Samara (JSC UEC-Kuznetsov). Replacement of the engines will take place later.

In total, 160 Tu-15 combat aircraft rocket carriers of the Russian Federation Air Force should be upgraded to Tu-160M ​​level and ten new strategists of Tu-2027M ​​were built before 160 with the start of deliveries in 2023.

Earlier it was reported that the updated Tu-160M ​​will receive new missile weapons.

Comments

[Mavrikiy]

flight and navigation equipment, onboard communication complex, control system, radar station, electronic countermeasures complex. At the same time, new engines NK-32-02 (series 2) have not yet been installed on the aircraft, the serial production of which is being restored in Samara (JSC UEC-Kuznetsov). The engines will be replaced later.

Where is deep modernity? No engines ....... no modernization. "For the sake of a good word, they will not regret their father either"

[bessmertniy]

Not immediately Moscow was built. It comes to deep modernism.

[Teacher67]

It is interesting, but when they will be new, or again they will wait for the promised 3 years, or even more.

[mark1]

Quote: bessmertniy

Not immediately Moscow was built. It comes to deep modernism.

Oh sure! We will live forever ...

[mark1]

I see some pig’s snouts instead of faces, but nothing else ... ... Like me - no, like me ... Survived, stupid ram, out of my mind! ..

How long have you had this? From the New Year or just in the morning started? It would be necessary to treat you in a piglet.

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: mark1

How long have you had this? From the New Year or just in the morning started? It would be necessary to treat you in a piglet.

I think the treatment will not help, this is the state of mind of the farmer from Nenko. Around the sausage and ham.

[Lipchanin]

Quote: mark1

Oh sure! We will live forever ...

Do you need him today? Highly?
Doesn't it fly on old engines?

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: bessmertniy

Not immediately Moscow was built. It comes to deep modernism.

That's when it comes, then write deeply modernized,, drum fight.

[Sergey Averchenkov]

Do you need engines? You know how we are different - I'm glad you are not.

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: Sergey Averchenkov

Do you need engines? You know how we are different - I'm glad you are not.

Naturally pleased, the pilot has a personal fan now.

[Sergey Averchenkov]

Okay, let's try to figure it out - are you a pilot? Did you fly on the 160th? No? If not, shut up.

[Lipchanin]

Quote: Sergey Averchenkov

You know how we are different - I'm glad you are not.

For someone, a glass is half FULL.
And for someone EMPTY

[Monter]

A husband and wife in a Jewish family fall asleep in the evening:
“Sarah, did you close the door to the two locks?”
- Yes, for two.
“Sarah, did you hang up the barn lock?”
- Yes, I did.
- Sarah, and pushed the heck?
- Yes, pushed it.
- And there is such a lock with a small key ...
- All closed.
- And fastened a chain?
- (with clasped hands) Oh, I forgot!
- Well, come in kind people, take whatever you want!
So you, without engines there is no modernization ...

[Mavrikiy]

Actually an engine, it’s not lock and a new door!

[Lipchanin]

Quote: Mavrikiy

this is not a lock, but a new door

And the old engines are open Door?

[Lipchanin]

Quote: Monter

So you, without engines there is no modernization ...

The phrase from the article slipped by

Replacement of engines will take place later.

[Ros 56]

Read an article or diagonally? Especially for the first commentator:

At the same time, new engines NK-32-02 (series 2) have not yet been installed on the aircraft, the serial production of which is being restored in Samara (JSC UEC-Kuznetsov). The engines will be replaced later.

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: Mavrikiy

Where is deep modernity? No engines ....... no modernization. "For the sake of a good word, they will not regret their father either"

The head is given in order to eat into it! Is this really about you? I do not want to believe.
= As explained in the UAC, on this prototype Tu-160M ​​installed new flight and navigation equipment, airborne communications complex, control system, radar station, electronic countermeasures complex. =
In order to experience all of the above, no new engines are needed. And when they appear, everything, except the engines, will be already tested and finished. The process just speeds up.
What is wrong?

[NEXUS]

Quote: Mavrikiy

Where is deep modernity? No engines ....... no modernization. "For the sake of a good word, they will not regret their father either"

The engines are being tested. You’d be in the workshop, and say, well, speed up the work, but take part yourself. You will merge, because it’s easier to write heresy here than to create and create. So that it comes to you, the creation of a new engine, this in terms of complexity is not inferior to flying to the moon. This is so that it dawns on you. At the same time, in creating such a product, and a new engine is not a modernization of the old, but a NEW engine, more than one design bureau or institute takes part. By the way, tell me, is there a country in the world that would create an engine at least in terms of performance characteristics similar to the NK-32?
Attached to dvigunu ... and avionics, arsenal, glider is not important at all? PPC, the commentators gathered.

[Thrall]

At the same time, new engines NK-32-02 (series 2) have not yet been installed on the aircraft, the serial production of which is being restored in Samara (UEC-Kuznetsov JSC). The engines will be replaced later

Samara, don't let me down!

[Starover_Z]

It would still have good coverage to reduce the radar signature. To the "joy" of "partners"!

[Zaurbek]

They will be suspended for ONE place, if they let you down .... Tu32 and T02 are tied to NK-160-22 and PAK-YA is tied to some derivative of NK32-02 TRRD. There mass production should be established. Something else they wrote from the turbojet engine based on NK-32 for Ruslan

[mark1]

Kuznetsov was ruined tightly, he still cannot come to his senses - a shortage of personnel.

[Sergey Averchenkov]

Yes you hate your country.

[mark1]

Quote: Sergey Averchenkov

Yes you hate your country.

AND YOU

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: mark1

Quote: Sergey Averchenkov

Yes you hate your country.

AND YOU

I agree, it seems he is already sober.

[Sergey Averchenkov]

Hey, monkey. who is sober we will find out right now.

[Sergey Averchenkov]

Great answer - I have nothing to say to you.

[Mestny]

He probably loves his country.
He hates Russia.

[ser56]

but what is their view from the territory of the Volga Gate ...

[Zaurbek]

What new weapons will he receive?

[shoroh]

25 strategists is not enough? Given the versatility of the machine and its real need.

[G. Georgiev]

.... Upgraded? .... American "B1B", without modernization, carries 24 missiles with a range of 1000 km, is AGM-158 JASSM-ER ”.

[mark1]

What is needed is not a drum mechanism, but a cassette one, then 1,5-2 times more missiles can be placed.

[AlexG83]

Quote: mark1

What is needed is not a drum mechanism, but a cassette one, then 1,5-2 times more missiles can be placed.

Here, build a woodpile and shove firewood there as you please, and the methods of placing cruise missiles with nuclear warheads in a missile carrier are already a bit different competencies.

[mark1]

Quote: AlexG83

and the methods of deploying cruise missiles with nuclear warheads in a missile carrier are a bit different competencies.

Really yours? Then byad ...

[jonht]

A beautiful plane, but this one is still out of touch with what was left of the USSR.

[Piramidon]

Quote: jonht

A beautiful plane, but this one is still out of touch with what was left of the USSR.

What groundwork? This is a combat modernized aircraft.

[jonht]

As far as I know from the articles here and other media, the modernization has not yet used newly produced parts and structural elements. And even engines with repairs, not new ones. That is, everything from the Soviet reserve, except for new equipment.

[Piramidon]

Quote: jonht

everything from the Soviet reserve, except for new equipment

Well, only equipment was updated for him.

[seregin-s1]

The project for the modernization of Tu-160 aircraft into the Tu-160M ​​version ("product 70M") was approved on October 23, 2014. In total, 160 combat aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces should be upgraded to the Tu-15M ​​level, and ten new Tu-2018M ​​bombers are to be built by the Russian Ministry of Defense with Tupolev PJSC in January 160, worth 2027 billion rubles for KAZ by 160. According to known data, the first flight of the first of them is scheduled for 2021 with the start of deliveries in 2023.
The Tu-160 combat aircraft with serial number 160-2 (the fourth serial Tu-02 built, tail number "160", proper name "Valentin Bliznyuk") was converted into a prototype Tu-19M ​​bomber. Earlier in 2006, this aircraft became the prototype of the "first stage of modernization" Tu-160.

[rocket757]

Terrible weapons and their relevance will not lose for a long time.
Fly swans fly and ... get home!

[Jurkovs]

At the same time, new NK-32-02 engines (series 2) have not yet been installed on the plane

This is the most important thing. These engines are waiting for the Tu-22M3. To turn into a modification of the M4.

[V1er]

Tu-160 (factory designation: “product 70”, designation of the developer - “K”, according to NATO codification: Blackjack - Blackjack (Club)) - a supersonic strategic bomber with a variable sweep wing, developed in the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1970s . The chief designer is V.I. Bliznyuk.
Specifications:
Crew: 4 person
Length: 54,1 m
Wingspan: 55,7 / 50,7 / 35,6 m
Height: 13,1 m
Wing area: 232 m²
Weight empty: 110 000 kg
Normal takeoff weight: 267 600 kg
Maximum takeoff weight: 275 000 kg
Engines: 4 × TRDDF NK-32
Maximum thrust: 4 × 18 kgf
Afterburner: 4 × 25 000 kgf
Fuel weight: 148 000 kg
Flight characteristics:
Maximum speed:
at height: 2200 km / h (M = 1,84)
At the ground: 1030 km / h (M = 0,86)
Cruising speed: 850 km / h (M = 0,71)
Maximum range without refueling: 13 950 km
Practical range without refueling: 12 300 km
Combat radius: 7300 km
Flight duration: 25 h
Ceiling: 16 000 m
Rate of climb: 4400 m / min
Takeoff / Run Length: 900 m

Tu-160M

The supersonic strategic bomber Tu-160M ​​will be equipped with a new airborne radar station, a new aerobatic complex with all the most modern navigation aids (including the latest laser gyroscopes), as well as communication systems, sensors, fuel devices and display systems. A fundamentally new airborne self-defense complex or electronic warfare complex is being created for the Tu-160M.
Among other things, the aviation industry is faced with the task of eliminating all the old problems of long-range aviation Tu-160, Tu-95 and Tu-22M3. First of all, the products of Ukrainian enterprises are replaced, which in Soviet times participated in the cooperation of co-contractors.

Tu-160M2

It is expected that the Tu-160M2 will be equipped with a new type of supersonic cruise missiles (high-precision missiles X-29, X-58, X-55) On board the aircraft it is actually possible to place about 12-16 missiles. The engine of the new NK-32-02 bomber is more economical and is equipped with an amplification system, which will extend the total departure range by 1000 km. For the Tu-160M2 on the basis of the modernized NK-32-02 engine, the next generation is being developed - NK-65.
Technological innovations account for 70% of the internal structure of the aircraft.

PAK YES

??

[Thrifty]

On the last rezulok it is PACK PAKDA a slightly different conference, I will not say more! !!!

[22 dmdc]

Quote: Teacher67

It is interesting, but when they will be new, or again they will wait for the promised 3 years, or even more.

Why are you interested in?

[Old26]

Quote: Ros 56

Read an article or diagonally? Especially for the first commentator:

Actually, Yuri, I perfectly understand the comrade Mavrikiywho wrote the first post. Recently, we like to rush words, terms. And I think there would be no first post if it was written that the first flight was made by the TU-160, which passed modernizationAnd not deep modernization. Yet more often the term deep modernization implies not only the replacement of avionics, instruments, radar, etc., but also engines.

Quote: shoroh

25 strategists is not enough? Given the versatility of the machine and its real need.

And more is hardly necessary. Moreover, the PAK DA complex is planned in the future. Of course I would like more, but as they say: "stretch your legs on the clothes." Even the USSR built fewer than 40.

[lvov_aleksey]

I did not read the chat below. Forward and upward white swans !!!