foxbat155 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 (edited) Not really... You mistaken few thing here. Poland during signing a contract for SU-22M4 delivery didn't intended use of those aircrafts as a recce platforms. Situation changed after withdrawal from service Su-20R, Air Force decided to modify 7 aircrafts to use recce pods (bort numbers 3508, 3306, 8205, 3304, 9615, 3816, 3920). Here was a problem, Poland had KKR-1, the oldest variant of this recce pods family, originally intended for Su-17M2 aircrafts. Su-22M4 had originally only KKR-1TE-54 pod(Soviet aircrafts were able to carry at least 7 variants of KKR pods) which was different in few details from old KKR-1. In order to use those old pods on the Su-22M4 was needed to do some modifications, pod's power/communication cables need to be connect a bit different way compare to KKR-1TE-54, new cable connection fairing need to be done and new type of control panel in a cockpit (Poland didn't had them at all). All mods were done locally in a service workshops. All serial Su-22M4 were ready to hung original KKR-1TE-54 pod, here on the photo lugs (green circle) for pod suspending and cable connector door (red circle), you can clearly read "KKR" description, photo shows underbelly of a aircraft bort number 3216 which never carried KKR pod during service in PolAF: Here photo of the same part of aircraft number 3620: Edited January 17 by foxbat155 3
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