Onboard the IL-76 will install a hypersonic laboratory

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Aircraft IL-76 No. 5209 will turn into a flying hypersonic laboratory, reports Rossiyskaya Gazeta With reference to the official website of the Flight Research Institute named after M.M. Gromov.

Archival photo.

The company also announced the cost of the work on the conversion of the vessel. Together with VAT, it will be 198,05 mln. Rub.

The newspaper notes that "one can only guess about the possible practical purpose of such modernization, because all scientific works will surely be kept secret."

This aircraft will continue the line of scientific vessels available in the Russian Aerospace Force.

"For example, on the basis of IL-76MD there is an aircraft carrier laser weapons A-60. This aircraft has a Skif-D laser installation, which can “hold back” the missile weapons and reconnaissance satellites of a possible enemy, ”reminds RG.
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  1. +21
    16 February 2016 13: 01
    The company also announced the cost of refitting the ship. Together with VAT it will be 198,05 rubles.


    And not expensive ...







    1. +4
      16 February 2016 13: 03
      MILLION forgot...
      1. +3
        16 February 2016 13: 47
        Alex_Rarog .... MILLION. forgot...

        The author is clearly overloaded. Read: "the Il-76 aircraft will turn into a flying hypersonic laboratory .."
        Americans suck! Pyatyatsya with some kind of hyper-X-ohm, and we already have IL-76
        easily flies in hypersound! And just for 198,05 rubles! good
        1. +4
          16 February 2016 17: 47
          Quote: askort154
          Americans suck! Pyatyatsya with some kind of hyper-X-ohm, and we already have IL-76
          easily flies in hypersound! And just for 198,05 rubles!

          ... + ... but, the people did not appreciate the humor ... hi ... but, in fact, it is very interesting ... until now there was no reliable information, except for fragmentary information and indirect assumptions about active work in the field of hypersound, where something was "planed-sculpted" quietly and without unnecessary noise ... and only now we can say that the work is going into the practical plane of testing a real device, since it means there is an appearance and an engine ... on the other hand, since the 80s, everyone knows GELA, which actually flew 5-6 M ... where the main issues were resolved:
          - heating
          - the formation of a stable plasma cloud at 50-60 seconds of flight at a speed above 5M ... where the mattresses pierced with their X-51A in 2010 - after 140 seconds of flying at 5,5 M, the interruption of telemetry from the side was more than 3s. ... hi
          ... after the GELA there were, "Rainbow-2" - a converted X-22 that actually gave out 6M, the last thing that was shown by the GLL AP-02 (in the photo MAKS 2009) ... intrigued ... hi
    2. +19
      16 February 2016 13: 03
      Yes, correct, otherwise I’ll throw a thousand more for a couple of such planes. So that the tests go faster.
    3. +2
      16 February 2016 13: 08
      Quote: bulvas
      And not expensive ...

      to reimburse the VAT generally laughter 30 r 21 kopecks in general laughter.
      Even the cameral from the tax will not be belay
    4. 0
      16 February 2016 13: 08
      Quote: bulvas
      Aircraft IL-76 No. 5209 will turn into a flying hypersonic laboratory


      wondering what is this "hypersonic laboratory"? hypersound is when a supersonic air flow is used in the engine and how are they going to achieve this on sludge, will they fall from a height with super sound?
      1. +5
        16 February 2016 13: 22
        Quote: Sveles
        I wonder what is this "hypersonic laboratory"?

        “One can only guess about the possible practical purpose of such modernization, because all scientific works will probably be classified” bully
      2. FID
        +7
        16 February 2016 13: 39
        Quote: Sveles
        I wonder what is this "hypersonic laboratory"?

        Carrier of demonstrators, prototypes and flying models ....
      3. 0
        16 February 2016 19: 09
        Quote: Sveles
        wondering what is this "hypersonic laboratory"? hypersound is when a supersonic air flow is used in the engine and how are they going to achieve this on sludge, will they fall from a height with super sound?

        The same as on the B-52



        carrier GPZ LA, the carrier plane delivers to the stratosphere, then launch accelerator exit 20-50 km, launch GPZ DU and so on to the Karman line.
        It is unclear WHY for this IL-76, which AT ALL was not calculated, was not designed for pylons under the wing, external suspension and launching missiles with IL-76 ...
    5. +4
      16 February 2016 13: 41
      I didn’t understand a damn thing, but it sounds great ... Yes
      1. FID
        +8
        16 February 2016 13: 47
        On the external sling, or in the abdomen, models of hypersonic devices will be carried and dropped. Flight tests, so to speak ...
        1. 0
          16 February 2016 14: 06
          Quote: SSI
          On the external sling, or in the abdomen, models of hypersonic devices will be carried and dropped. Flight tests, so to speak ...

          it’s clear Sergey, I’m talking about something we don’t recognize! wink
          1. FID
            0
            16 February 2016 15: 50
            Quote: Andrey Yurievich
            it’s clear Sergey, I’m talking about something we don’t recognize!

            Well, friends-buddies in Zhukovsky are enough for now ...
        2. 0
          16 February 2016 16: 06
          On the outside, how is it? We didn’t try to use the Tu-95, so there is a place for suspension.
          1. +1
            16 February 2016 16: 11
            On the outside, how is it?

            Attention on the console (after the engines) of the wing.

            "The aircraft can be equipped with various free-fall bombs or radio beacons on 4 UBD-3DA beam holders." Bombing can be carried out both in automatic mode from the Kupol system and from the NKBP-7 collimator sight. At the moment, three Il-3 sides, which are based at the Migalovo airfield, are equipped with four UBD-76DA beam holders. "
            1. 0
              17 February 2016 03: 57
              The weight and aerodynamics of the bombs (50? 250 kg?) And the weight and aerodynamics of the engine are two different things. And how will the airplane behave when the hypersonic engine is switched on (instead of the regular? ..
          2. 0
            16 February 2016 19: 41
            Quote: glasha3032
            Did not try to use the Tu-95


            Simply, this IL-76 is the property of the LII and has long been used as an LL (flying laboratory). The old programs are over, the new program (hypersound) has begun.
            1. 0
              17 February 2016 04: 00
              Clear . In Soviet times, this problem was solved simply - it must, so it will be manufactured as much as needed. Although the MO could transfer any aircraft suitable for suspension with a small residual resource.
    6. +2
      16 February 2016 14: 14
      Well, if it's "classified" - so why the heck talk about the laboratory.
      1. 0
        16 February 2016 19: 47
        Quote: Blondy
        Well, if it's "classified" - so why the heck talk about the laboratory


        True noticed!
      2. 0
        16 February 2016 19: 47
        Quote: Blondy
        Well, if it's "classified" - so why the heck talk about the laboratory


        True noticed!
  2. +3
    16 February 2016 13: 02
    It’s good that we find money for experimental cars ...
  3. +1
    16 February 2016 13: 02
    They will study Obama with Erdogashka as the main monkey and rat!
    1. +1
      16 February 2016 13: 04
      Quote: DIVAN SOLDIER
      They will study Obama with Erdogashka as the main monkey and rat!


      Like this!?

      Run in hypersound?
      Do you think they’ll fly smoothly?

      1. 0
        16 February 2016 13: 07
        It depends on what the weather will be, and then "low and not far off", but still interesting to watch ...!
      2. 0
        16 February 2016 13: 28
        Quote: bulvas
        Like this!?

        Run in hypersound?
        Do you think they’ll fly smoothly?

        And now, now, now!
  4. vit
    +1
    16 February 2016 13: 06
    And not expensive ...

    And don’t talk! the A-60 laser was probably more expensive ... 500-600 rubles! lol
    But seriously, what kind of beast is hypersonic laboratory? Yes, and flying ... climbed into Google.
    1. +2
      16 February 2016 13: 10
      what kind of beast is such a hypersonic laboratory

      Well, you have to start up products from some medium. No, it would be nice to involve a "native" carrier in this case, but you can't put a lot of measuring equipment into it. And then ... put it - I don't want to. Comfortably, we flew to the training ground, launched, watched, recorded ... so to speak in real time.
    2. 0
      16 February 2016 13: 15
      There will be a fight with the pitch of Hypersonic products during the discharge.
    3. -3
      16 February 2016 13: 16
      Quote: Vit
      But seriously interesting, what kind of animal is such a hypersonic laboratory?

      and how can it be implemented on Subsonic IL-76?
      how he does not strain him and supersonic not reach.
      Free fall? even the speed of sound will not reach (250 m / s)
      Launch of GPZ missiles (as with the B-52)? Since the IL-76 is not a carrier, there are no catapult pylons (AKU-2,3), the same thing did not happen.

      -------------------------------------------
      in Australia even students are engaged in hypersound: cheap and cheerful, without Galaxy







      1. +5
        16 February 2016 13: 25
        and how can it be implemented on Subsonic IL-76?

        Pylons are suspended, telemetry reception equipment is put in and out. The idea is good. Instead of building ground observation points, shove everything into a transporter, hang the product overboard and test it. Changing the starting height is easy, changing the weather is easy. You can take not one product, but a couple, with different assembly options.
        in Australia, even students engage in hypersound:

        Have you achieved a lot? Hypersound, in dense layers of the atmosphere ... well, well.
        1. +1
          16 February 2016 14: 20
          ..... Have you achieved a lot? Hypersound, in dense layers of the atmosphere ... well, well.

          ... It is theoretically possible ... It is almost difficult .... Large energy losses and heating .... And so - quite .... You are not surprised at the speed of the projectile from the tank smooth-bore -1500-1800m / s ???? .... And this is already hypersound - 4-5MAX ..... hi
          1. 0
            16 February 2016 14: 30
            .You are not surprised at the speed of the projectile from the tank smoothbore -1500-1800m / s ????

            Not surprising, but this projectile flies no more than 4 km. And slaughter remains even less.
            .Practically difficult ...

            And it is also fraught with great destruction on the ground and the constant roar of shock waves.
            1. +2
              16 February 2016 14: 49
              .... Not surprising, but this projectile flies no more than 4 km. ...


              ... Well, let’s fly it, let’s suppose much further, but it loses speed quickly .... When energy is supplied, it can fly far and long .... True, it will be necessary to fuel very well and burn in large quantities ....

              .... And still fraught with great destruction on the ground and the constant roar of shock waves ....

              ... And here, if possible in more detail .... Especially with: "constant roar of shock waves" .... For your information, the "roar" is heard only at the moment the front of the shock wave passes through the hearing aid (ear) of a person ... ..A person who is in one place will not hear any constant "rumble" (only once) .... hi
              1. 0
                16 February 2016 15: 01
                the constant roar of shock waves

                Well, yes, the word "permanent" had to be out of place.
          2. +2
            16 February 2016 18: 07
            Quote: aleks 62 next
            ... It is theoretically possible ... It is almost difficult .... Large energy losses and heating .... And so - quite .... You are not surprised at the speed of the projectile from the tank smooth-bore -1500-1800m / s ???? .... And this is already hypersound - 4-5MAX .....

            ... nope ... it’s only at the exit from the barrel ... and, further, air resistance and attraction ... the speed drops ... well, if you ordain a projectile into a plasma cloud controlled by a magnetic field ... then definitely ... so for the seed:
            Currently, scientists need to understand in detail the mechanisms of propagation and change of a shock wave in nonequilibrium media. The most important applied task of such studies is the creation of the so-called “plasma envelope” of an aircraft — the inclusion in the aircraft control system of the technology of artificially created plasma flow on the wing, which can be controlled under the influence of a magnetic field, which will improve the aerodynamic performance of aircraft.
            : ... hi
        2. +1
          16 February 2016 18: 24
          Quote: Wedmak
          Pylons are suspended, telemetry reception equipment is put in and out. The idea is good.

          pylons (AKU-2, AKU-3, MKU-6-5) are on the TU-95, it is also equipped with the APP-95 "Dub", the aerodynamics of the carrier has been calculated and licked for launching missile launchers, ballistic missiles, bombing.
          TU-95 is 4 times more economical (practical range), cruising speed is almost 10% higher, the ceiling is the same or 1500m more (depending on the Tu-96 modifications at 5000m)
          IN FIG FIGURE GOAT (il -76) BAYAN?

          Tu-95KM No. 63M52607, Tu-95MA, etc.
          Quote: Wedmak
          Instead of building ground observation points, shove everything into a transporter, hang the product overboard and test

          What are the observation points?
          GPZ LA "works" from 5 seconds to 30 seconds.
          Watch, do not watch at 5-8M, at an altitude of 50 km, a carrier loitering at an altitude of 10-12 km - you won't "notice"
          All telemetry, or PPSU, capsule, discharge after performing LZ.
          Quote: Wedmak
          Have you achieved a lot? Hypersound, in dense layers of the atmosphere ... well, well.

          1.Lots
          2. If, before reading, they familiarized themselves with what they have achieved and about the "dense layers of the atmosphere", they would not write nonsense.
          300 km - "dense layers of the atmosphere" ..nunu


          1. 0
            16 February 2016 18: 30


            The Hypersonic Center conducts research in all aspects of hypersonic flight, including test facilities, jet engines, flight tests of rockets, aerothermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics and optical diagnostics.



            3.Raketa 5V28 with GL "Kholod", complex S-200V


            The scramjet E-57 consists of an axisymmetric three-hop air intake, a coaxial combustion chamber and an annular nozzle of a small degree of expansion. The shell and central body form an annular combustion chamber with special profiling along the length. On the walls of the chamber there are three hydrogen supply belts. The first feed belt with a niche flame stabilizer is located on the central body. Here, hydrogen is supplied to the combustion chamber through 42 openings with a diameter of 1,7 mm. The second belt with a step flame stabilizer is located on the shell, the third belt with a niche stabilizer is located on the central body. In the second and third zones, there are also 42 openings, but with a diameter of 2,1 mm. These belts are equipped with standard aircraft spark plugs for an electrical ignition system.
            From the ground? "dense layers"?
            Quote: Wedmak
            Have you achieved a lot? Hypersound, in dense layers of the atmosphere ... well, well.

            yep
      2. 0
        16 February 2016 16: 11
        But in TsAGI somehow supersonic and hypersonic products are purged? And successfully, since the 50s.
        1. 0
          16 February 2016 16: 18
          And in TsAGI somehow supersonic and hypersonic products?

          Well, maybe they blew it, but no one has canceled the flight tests. Maybe they just decided to save money and drive a transporter instead of Tu-95MS? There is almost no difference from the point of view of the discharge platform, and telemetry equipment can be loaded directly into the plane.
          1. 0
            16 February 2016 18: 48
            Quote: Wedmak
            Maybe they just decided to save money and drive a transporter instead of the Tu-95MS?

            fool
            1. Having spent on its alteration
            Quote: Author
            198,05 million rubles

            2. IL-76 $ 9000 / hour
            9 t / h

            (Tu-134VIP - $ 2100–2500; Tu-154VIP - $ 3700–4500; IL-62VIP - $ 5000–7000).
            TU-95 (screws OKB Zhdanov, possessing a record (82%!) Efficiency in all modes).
            Nogovitsyn claimed that approx. 600 000 rub. (600 000/77 = $ 7800
            Quote: Wedmak
            There is almost no difference in terms of dump platform

            Man Do you understand in aerodynamics (even a bit)?
            - if the aircraft was not originally designed for external suspension and missile launch (dropping bombs) this is not
            Quote: Wedmak
            almost none
            not at all.
            Let me explain: an airplane in flight has (almost always) an angle of attack, pressure under the wing (fuselage) is high from below, turbulence, etc. A rocket, a body having a linear length parallel to the air flow, the same with an angle of attack "flies" together with the carrier, which creates a lifting force.
            SO:

            it's "not for nothing" to knock down
            - The problem is in turbojet engines, in air intakes and compressors: shock waves caused by the passage of a rocket, “turbulence”, rocket fuel combustion products, “entering” the air intake, can disrupt the normal operation of the compressor and, in the worst case, the engine will simply stop.

            back in the 40-50s of the last century, on the first fighter jets, with unsuccessful placement of gun barrels relative to the engine’s air intake, the designers were faced with failures when firing: powder gases were drawn into the compressor, disturbed the flow around the turbine blades, as a result of sensitive engines stalled.
          2. 0
            17 February 2016 11: 30
            About the application in the form of a reset platform is not written. From the article you can understand what the hypersonic engine will be tested instead of the standard one (previously all other engines have experienced it like that) or is it just that the article is written clumsily? And then - the cost of revision is clearly not the cost of a new holder.
            1. 0
              17 February 2016 14: 33
              Quote: glasha3032
              From the article you can understand what the hypersonic engine will test instead of the standard one (earlier all other engines tested this way)

              that GPZ DU earned, it is necessary to reach 4M ...
              I'm afraid the "bolivar" (IL-76) will not stand it, the maximum speed is up to 900 km / h
              Subsonic straight-through, supersonic straight-through and hypersonic straight-forward- ABSOLUTELY different things (especially the last 2a)
        2. 0
          16 February 2016 20: 44
          Quote: glasha3032
          And in TsAGI somehow supersonic and hypersonic products?

          of course .

          hypersonic wind tunnel T-116 TsAGI




          And what does this have to do with IL-76?
          1. 0
            17 February 2016 11: 37
            Is it possible to work out the engine on the ground with IL-76 by creating the conditions for hypersonic flight? Is it possible to model airplanes in the pipe proportionally to the high-speed air flow, why not use the same approach?
  5. 0
    16 February 2016 13: 09
    Onboard the IL-76 will install a hypersonic laboratory

    So what kind of laboratory? I heard that aircraft engines were tested on it.
  6. +1
    16 February 2016 13: 29
    Most likely it will be "carrier plane" or "observer plane"
  7. -1
    16 February 2016 13: 31
    Now they’ll brush themselves in the Pentagon, what a laboratory! We are waiting for volleys of farts McCain and co.)
    1. 0
      16 February 2016 13: 34
      They have their own for a long time. B-52 called. They have been experiencing for a long time.
  8. 0
    16 February 2016 14: 03
    Onboard the IL-76 will install a hypersonic laboratory
    -------------------------------------------------- -
    Wow! we got out of the bay !? Akuyut! it is not clear, but, most importantly, beautiful. the author, but what's the highlight?
  9. 0
    16 February 2016 14: 22
    Not a specialist, but I will assume that it is possible that experiments are somehow connected with the difference in air velocity at the inlet of the turbojet engine diffuser (and not only with it, but also for example on purge mock-ups) and at the exit of the nozzle ...
    Diameter, etc. ... I think that even taking IL-76 outboard air will be more efficient (cheaper) than a laboratory on the ground, where this air stream will have to be accelerated to its flight speed. It’s easier to cut a hole (width matters, so the plane is wide-body) and pick up what flies towards itself.
    1. 0
      16 February 2016 14: 33
      It’s easier to cut a hole (width matters, therefore, a wide-body aircraft) and pick up what flies towards itself.

      Well, what do we get? Anyway, the flow rate at the inlet will be equal to the speed of the aircraft. And in order for the direct-flow dvigun to work, you need a minimum speed of 2-3 max.
    2. 0
      16 February 2016 18: 59
      Quote: Mama_Cholli
      I think that even IL-76 taking outside air will be more effective (cheaper) than laboratories on the ground,
      IL-76 flight hour costs $ 9000
      + Runway, + technology +, +

      hypersonic wind tunnel T-116 TsAGI





      I won’t say the cost of the standard hour on the T-116.

      But I will tell them - $ 10 per hour
      A Boeing / AFOSR Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel wind tunnel was commissioned at Purdue University in the USA to study the movement of hypersonic devices in a laminar flow at a speed of 6 Mach - about 2 kilometers per second


      The pipe is made according to the Ludwig scheme, has an output aperture with a diameter of 9,5 inches (more than 20 cm) and is designed to study the laminar-turbulent transition at a low noise level. With a duration of one reset in eight seconds and a cycle time of 1 hour, its cost is about $ 10 for one reset. The Reynolds number is about 13 million.
      1. +1
        16 February 2016 22: 46
        Well, it’s worth hoping that IL 76 was not taken from the ceiling. Not fools at all. That same plane.
        this plane will be convertedthis plane will be converted
        1. 0
          17 February 2016 00: 53
          Quote: fzr1000
          that IL 76 was not taken from the ceiling. Not fools at all

          I don’t know. Maybe now the trend for ILs (well, as Poghosyan was with the superjet).
          I, as a fiddler with GPZ-time, do not see the point: the ceiling, speed, gluttony, the cost of a flight hour, in general, WHY such a carcass?

          Mondit, spend money on a pylon, wiring through the wing of communications, cooling, fuel pipelines, etc.

          If LA- then TU-95, TU-22
          If vaasche, then written off missiles, BR "for the eyes and ears" will be enough.
          Even from the BUK (well, those that weren’t shot at wink )
          Quote: fzr1000
          The same plane.

          we do not have enough air-based tankers, and platforms for AWACS, BTAs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations also do not experience an excess of 60 tons (in Syria) in the aircraft and in the air,
  10. 0
    16 February 2016 14: 42
    Quote: Wedmak
    It’s easier to cut a hole (width matters, therefore, a wide-body aircraft) and pick up what flies towards itself.

    Well, what do we get? Anyway, the flow rate at the inlet will be equal to the speed of the aircraft. And in order for the direct-flow dvigun to work, you need a minimum speed of 2-3 max.

    What interests me is not the flow rate at the input, but at the output. First, there is a decrease in diameter, and then again expansion. There is such a topic, density, temperature, speed, etc. depending on the size ...

    When compared with the liquid in the pipes:
    For example, at the same flow rates in two pipes of different diameters, the speed will be less in the pipe with a larger diameter.
    So, for example, with the same water flow in the pipe dia. 150 mm will flow at a slower rate than in the dia pipe. 100 mm
    1. 0
      16 February 2016 14: 55
      Well yes, Bernoulli's law. Only I do not understand how this relates to the hypersonic laboratory at IL-76. Even if you squeeze the pipe into the eye of the needle, there will be no supersonic sound.
      And the exit speed ... so on conventional turbojet engines it has already been studied up and down. The problem just lies in the speed of movement. With 4-5 swings and higher, air has great resistance even in the upper atmosphere. And to fly, you need to throw out combustion products even faster at the exit of their engine. Plus thermal and power loads. They are working on this. Well, while the PRD does not want to work correctly.
      1. 0
        16 February 2016 15: 14
        I said that it was a layman. )))
        Air flows around the wing in different ways, with different speeds from below and above the wing.
        Is it possible to use this difference when taking the air flow from the places where the greatest difference in speed is?
        It can be assumed that the flying laboratory will not work as a towing model, namely as a compressor for models.
        Perhaps it’s not right, but once I read / saw (I don’t remember exactly) that one of our inventors suggested using a pump that uses nothing but the kinetic energy of the river itself to supply water from the rivers. Moreover, the idea was to increase the pressure in chambers turning over from the movement of the river, mounted on an axis, which was fixed on both banks of the river. The more chambers, the greater the pressure obtained at the outlet. Everything in the end is classified by oil companies. )))

        write: Regarding your remark about the compression of the hole, but the output will still be an increase in speed. Or will it still not be?
        1. +1
          16 February 2016 15: 22
          Is it possible to use this difference when taking the air flow from the places where the greatest difference in speed is?

          Efficiency is low. Moreover: a) a vortex forms in the place of the fence, b) the pressure immediately drops, since you remove part of the air from there.
          By the way, I remember this effect used on the experimental devices of ECIP. They wanted to control the boundary layer on the fuselage with the help of hundreds of small holes in the skin. It seems like you could control the lifting force - more / less.
          I think it’s easier. Or an observer, any carrier of experimental apparatuses.
          Regarding your remark about the compression of the hole, but the output will still be an increase in speed. Or will it still not be?

          It will, and if you add fuel there and set it on fire, we will get the same direct-flow engine in the simplest version.

          And if you do not add anything, the flow rate at the output will certainly increase, he has nowhere to go, but the drag of the entire device will also increase.
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  11. +1
    16 February 2016 15: 07
    Let's see what happens ...
  12. 0
    16 February 2016 15: 28
    Quote: Wedmak
    Is it possible to use this difference when taking the air flow from the places where the greatest difference in speed is?

    Efficiency is low. Moreover: a) a vortex forms in the place of the fence, b) the pressure immediately drops, since you remove part of the air from there.
    By the way, I remember this effect used on the experimental devices of ECIP. They wanted to control the boundary layer on the fuselage with the help of hundreds of small holes in the skin. It seems like you could control the lifting force - more / less.
    I think it’s easier. Or an observer, any carrier of experimental apparatuses.

    Thanks for the reply.
    If so, then the cost of remaking the aircraft is unclear. Could use a smaller machine (if an observer), I don’t think that it’s boring to carry tens of tons of equipment for observation.
    To tow the same misunderstanding ... Why put a subsonic tug of product models? Could TU 160 be adapted for such a thing.
    1. 0
      16 February 2016 15: 34
      Yes, who knows. Observations are different again. And if not just a tug, but with the launch of a flight prototype? You can’t put a lot of fixing equipment on the Tu-160.
      Here you can guess like a daisy, how many petals, so many options. And not the fact that we guess.
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      2. 0
        16 February 2016 15: 35
        I agree. If the product is a fake, one thing, but if the flight prototype is another.