Tu-160M ​​and Tu-22M3M will receive a new short-range navigation system for refueling

The upgraded short-range navigation system for landing and refueling in the air will be installed on Russian modernized missile carriers Tu-22M3M and Tu-160M. This was told by the chief designer of JSC "Radiopribor" Evgeny Glebov.

Speaking to reporters, Glebov explained that the upgraded Tu-22M3M and Tu-160M ​​received a glass cockpit and now a new short-range navigation system is being created under it, which ensures the detection of a refueling aircraft and the aircraft's exit to a given point for refueling.

A feature is that a glass cabin appears on these machines. All systems are in the "figure" with certain GOSTs. Under these GOSTs, we refine our equipment in terms of interaction with equipment, provide digital outputs for interfacing with a glass cabin

- he said.

Glebov said that the plant has already released the first sets of an updated navigation system for modernized missile carriers. According to him, two samples of the system for the Tu-22M3M are already undergoing flight tests with the aircraft, now three navigation systems for the Tu-160M ​​are being manufactured.

The task of our equipment is to show where and at what distance is the tanker plane from the combat aircraft

- he added.

Comments

[Civil]

And there’s a new engine for them ... in general there will be a song.

[tralflot1832]

This is not me a bit of a pin.

[Civil]

Quote: tralflot1832

This is not me a bit of a pin.

This is understandable, just paid minors, the oligarchs sent money before the vote and they got new accounts)

[Cyril G ...]

With engines it is always difficult.

[ancient]

Quote: Civil

And to them a new engine

New nK-25 engines are not available.
NK-32 engine on a Tu-22M3M aircraft without alteration of the entire nacelle ... not possible

[tralflot1832]

Will it be possible for the pilots to play cards of cards during refueling with this "glass cockpit" and new navigation?

[tralflot1832]

Before the vote, this is happening on all sites, not just VO. Let's break through !!!

[Kurare]

If I am not mistaken, this is actually an official confirmation, albeit indirect, that an air-refueling system will be returned to the modernized Tu-22M3! Before that, there were only speculations and assumptions.

[tralflot1832]

Here was information that the Tu 22 after modernization receives a refueling system. Under the optic guard on the left of the cab.

[Kurare]

Quote: tralflot1832

There was information ...

Information - yes. As far as I know, official confirmation is not.

[tralflot1832]

Look at the photo of Tu 22 after modernization. A couple have already been rolled out. And what about the information, should Konoshenko speak? Like, we realized a mistake by accepting the offer of our American friends by cutting off the back-up system in the 90s. The states have a tsru, let them work the bread.

[Kurare]

Quote: tralflot1832

And what about the information, Konoshenko what should speak?

There is information from the MO about the plans and volumes of modernization of the Tu-22M3 to Tu-22M3M. EMNIP, information about the return of the refueling system was not there.

[tralflot1832]

The Air Force commander doesn’t go to see me in the morning. There must be some kind of secret. Let us restrict ourselves to the classics. Do you see the gopher? And I don’t see it! But he is there.

[bayard]

Quote: Kurare

there was no information about the return of the refueling system.

This information was widely discussed and covered. The modernized Tu-22M3M has a "hump" on the nose in front of the lantern with flaps for the refueling bar. Look at the rollout footage, it is immediately evident.

[Ros 56]

C'mon, already how many pictures are published. Look on the internet for a plane with a hump on its nose.

[ancient]

Quote: Kurare

this is actually an official confirmation

The RSBN system, with the INTERAIRLINE NAVIGATION block, was installed on the Tu-22m ... ever since "BIRTH".
"Calls" RSBN -PKV-works in the "Navigation" or "Meeting" mode. It is regularly used to perform a formation flight (building up and gathering a battle formation "by catching up on the route, maintaining the specified intervals and distance in the BP to the leader, the leader of the group and observing the time interval when assessing the target exit).
The launcher is at the navigator of the ship, above the "! Middle rocket control panel" (which is closed with a cover "... two launchers, the first ARK-15m, the second RSBN-PKV.
The fact that .. "modernized" is good ... but ... this is not any factual confirmation (Tu-160 has similar short-range navigation systems)

[Kurare]

Thanks for the clarification on the RSBN system. Just the title of the article suggested that this is a confirmation of the installation of a refueling system:

... Tu-22M3M will receive a new short-range navigation system for refueling

[ancient]

Quote: ancient

The RSBN system, with the INTERAIRLINE NAVIGATION block, was installed on the Tu-22m ... ever since "BIRTH".

That would be .. "conversations" were not

[Iline]

RSBN-PKV is a fairly good system, but the IL-78 has RSBN-7 without inter-airplane navigation mode. Even when he served, the Tu-95MS worked out a rapprochement system with a tanker. Hastily put additional equipment, an antenna, and in the cockpit, they almost stuck a monitor from a laptop on tape. But the range was such that the pilots only grinned - they already saw the tanker and only then did a mark from it appear on this monitor.
The whole idea with the modernization of this equipment, in my opinion, comes down to the fact that it is necessary to bind the output analog signals to digital for displaying on the screen (or as they say "glass cockpit").

[Thrifty]

RECEIVE, NOT RECEIVED! Another fairy tale, which is not very rushed and in a hurry to fulfill.

[svp67]

It’s good to start installing such a system on our other planes ...

[tax payerschik]

What a beautiful airplane! Elegant!

[Radical]

Quote: Kurare

If I am not mistaken, this is actually an official confirmation, albeit indirect, that an air-refueling system will be returned to the modernized Tu-22M3! Before that, there were only speculations and assumptions.

About a year or two ago, when the first modernized Tu-22M3M was rolled out, a brief informational note with a photo came out on VO about this news, and I drew attention to a certain "build-up" on top, on the nose of the aircraft, suggesting that that these are the hatch doors from which the filling module appears, and so one of the forum participants "knocked himself on the chest with his heel," that this is impossible, they say, a violation of the contract, that he himself would be the first to know about such an event .... It’s a pity I don’t remember his nickname, but I’m too lazy to dig into the archive.