Hellcat61 Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 Happens to the best of them.. "When you're out of Tomcats, you're out of fighters!"
golfsierra2 Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 OK, let's find out which aircraft are shown on these pics: From above Pic 1: Tupolev 95 Bear (which one ?) Pic 2: Sukhoi 24 (strange rear-looking radar ?) Pic 3: same Pic 4: same Pic 5: same Pic 6: Antonov 225 ?? (and it has only 4 engines) Pic 7: same pic 8: same pic 9: same pic 10: same pic 11: Tupolev 22M3 Backfire pic 12: same pic 13: dunno pic 14: more Backfire tails pic 15: same as 13, but looking at thw main gear, could be Backfire as well pic 16: yup, Backfire pic 17: no plane, only dudes pic 18: engines of the Backfire (Klimov NK-25) pic 19: Tupolev 16 Badger cockpit pic 20: same pic 21: Badger tail pic 22: same pic 23: same pic 24: Badger, front section collapsed pic 25: could be the same aircraft, opposite view pic 26: ?? pic 27: Badger noses kind regards, Raven.... [sigpic]http://www.crc-mindreader.de/CRT/images/Birds2011.gif[/sigpic]
RvETito Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 OK, let's find out which aircraft are shown on these pics: From above Pic 1: Tupolev 95 Bear (which one ?) Yep, one of the first versions that have a bomber/navigator in the nose. Pic 2: Sukhoi 24 (strange rear-looking radar ?) Nope, that's a Tu-22M2. Pic 3: same Pic 4: same Pic 5: same See above;) Pic 6: Antonov 225 ?? (and it has only 4 engines) Nope, Antonov-22 Antey, NATO code... "Cock":D Pic 7: same pic 8: same pic 9: same pic 10: same .... pic 11: Tupolev 22M3 Backfire Almost. That would be the M2, the main external difference are the air intakes- the M2 has intakes like the MiG-23 while the M3 they are of MiG-25 style. pic 12: same Now that's the M3. pic 13: dunno Tu-22M but which one is hard to tell. pic 14: more Backfire tails pic 15: same as 13, but looking at thw main gear, could be Backfire as well pic 16: yup, Backfire True;) pic 17: no plane, only dudes You call dudes these hostile-looking mujiks?:P pic 18: engines of the Backfire (Klimov NK-25) pic 19: Tupolev 16 Badger cockpit pic 20: same pic 21: Badger tail pic 22: same pic 23: same pic 24: Badger, front section collapsed pic 25: could be the same aircraft, opposite view pic 26: ?? pic 27: Badger noses True again!:) "See, to me that's a stupid instrument. It tells what your angle of attack is. If you don't know you shouldn't be flying." - Chuck Yeager, from the back seat of F-15D at age 89. =RvE=
Guest IguanaKing Posted January 7, 2007 Posted January 7, 2007 Yup...its sad to see such beautiful aircraft put out to pasture. It looks like a CIS version of AMARC. I'll bet they actually get lots of useful stuff out of that place.
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