Tu-160 loadout

[Silver_Dragon]

Post my Tu-160 data, missing some cargo and equipment:
Tu-160 [Blackjack A] Bomber

Man Rtng: 0.5/0.5 Damage Value: 85
Size/Signature: Large/Medium Bombsight: Computing
Counterm: 3rd Gen J&D Inflight Refuel: P

Sensors: Obzor-K radar, Sopka TF radar, 2nd Gen RWR

Throttle Setting/Speed in knots
Altitude Cruise Full Mil Reheat
Low: 440 495 556
Med: 440 618 820
High: 440 740 1080
VHigh: 440 740 1080
Ceiling: 15600 meters Engine Type: TF
Cruise Range: 6700 nmi Int Fuel: 148000 kg

Ordnance Loadouts: Payload: 30000 kg
• 12 Kh-55SM [AS-15b Kent]
• 6 Kh-55SM, 12 Kh-15
• 24 Kh-15
• 12 Kh-555 (2006)
• 12 Kh-101 or 12 Kh-102 (2014)
• 12 Kh-BD or 12 Kh-50 (Tu-160M)
• 4 nuclear bombs or 22 FAB-500 or 16 FAB-1000 (never operational)

Remarks: In Svc: May 1987
Reduced radar signature. Kh-15 was never integrated or carried operationally. Planned Tu-160M variant would have carried two Kh-80 Meterorit-A [AS-X-19 Koala].
• Apr 87 - 91: 19 delivered to 184th Regiment based at Priluki, Ukraine. To Ukrainian control in 1992.
• Delivered to Russia - 6 Feb 92-May 94, 8 ex-Ukraine 1999-00, 1 May 00, 1 July 2006, 1 April 2008. Losses Sep 03. Strength: 2 1984, 3 1985, 4 1986, 8 1987, 13 1988, 16 1989, 21 1990, 24 1991-92, 5 1993-94, 6 1995-1999, 7 Jan 01, 14 2012.
• 1991: Requirement cut from 100 to 40 aircraft. Only 27 produced.
• 2000: First day inflight refueling, night refueling in 2003.
• 11 Sep 07: Tests 'father of all bombs' ATBIP.
• 2009 on: Fitted with Sigma - provision for new weapons.
• Dec 14 on: Tu-160M1 delivered with provision for Kh-101 and Kh-102. Five fitted by Jan 2016.
• 17-20 Nov 15: 16 Kh-555 and 48 Kh-101 launched at targets in Syria.
• Feb 18: First flight of Tu-160M2. Fitted with Novella 70 radar, NK-32-02 engines, 7455 nmi range, new avionics and weapons - Kh-555, Kh-101, Kh-102, Kh-50, Kh-MTs, Kh-BD, estimated 4th Gen J&D. Optical bombsight removed. First expected in 2021. Plans to upgrade 16 and 50 new builds at three aircraft per year from 2023.

[upyr1]

thanks