Tu-360

[Wrench 9,476]

What decal level are you using for the Bort numbers?

 

Should be

 

DecalLevel=2

 

try that

 

Wrench

kevin stein

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I try this.

[+starfighter2 112]

Well - it looks like damn good target for me - but - if properly made FM alows to fly over Mach 4, missles will have hard time to catch it :yes:

[+starfighter2 112]

Tupolev Tu-360

 

Crew: 2

Wingspan: 40.7 m

Length: 100 m

Height: 30 m

Wing Area: 1,250 m2

Empty Weight: 200,000 kg

Maximum TO Weight: 350,000 kg

Fuel Load: 106,000 kg

Maximum Speed: Mach 6

Ceiling: 30,000 m

Maximum Range: 10,000 km

Engines: Six liquid hydrogen fuelled turboramjets

Weapons Load: 10,000 kg

 

Work on a Tu-160 successor began already in the early 1980s, when the bomber was still in the flight test phase. Tupolev produced two designs with different cruise speeds. Tu-260 (Aircraft 230) was designed for Mach 4 and a range of 10,000 km. The Tu-360 was much more ambitious: it was to carry a 10,000 kg offensive load to a distance of 15,000 km at a speed of Mach 6. The design team was led by V. A. Andreyev, who was in charge of aircraft designs powered by natural gas and liquid hydrogen at Tupolev. The Tu-360 was to be powered by six variable-cycle turboramjet engines fuelled with liquid hydrogen. Armament was to be carried in two weapon bays located in the wingroots. According to the draft design, the range requirement could not be achieved, maximum range at Mach 6 being 9,000-10,000 km.

 

Development of the Tu-360 was closely connected to the Tu-2000 single-stage aerospace plane similar to the American NASP. The prototype Tu-2000A was planned to test technologies for both vehicles, but only some construction work had been carried out before funding for the project stopped in 1992.

[+starfighter2 112]

Tupolev Tu-260

 

Crew: 2

Maximum TO Weight: 180,000 kg

Fuel Load: 106,000 kg

Maximum Speed: Mach 4

Ceiling: 25,000-27,000 m

Maximum Range: 8,000-10,000 km

Endurance: 2.3 hours

Engines: Four Soloviev D-80 turbojets

 

Design work on the Tu-260, also known as Aircraft 230, began in 1983 with Yu. A. Fazylov as project leader, and A. A. Tupolev and A. L. Pukhov as general managers. Draft design of the aircraft was completed in 1985. The Tu-260 was to be a tailless aircraft with delta wing and four turbojet engines.

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You got it from polish language forum?

Thank you starfighter2.

Ps, I think this ceiling is too small for this bomber.

[+starfighter2 112]

You got it from polish language forum?

Thank you starfighter2.

Ps, I think this ceiling is too small for this bomber.

 

No, I got it from >

 

Tu-160 'Blackjack', International Air Power Review Vol 2, 2001

[+starfighter2 112]

BTW Six liquid hydrogen powered engines would take the bomber to Mach 6 cruise speed at 30,000 m altitude that's about 98425 ft. Small for ya? Think not - it supposed to be max operational celling, with "dynamic jumps" it could reach 40000m. "Problem" will be engines which still needs oxigen for work even in small amounts and held mostly in inner oxy tanks.

Edited November 14, 2008 by starfighter2

[+starfighter2 112]

Further more - it was designed to drop bombs from that attitude - so some Ruskie "JDAM" will be included here.

Anyway - I like concept and I like idea for mod here. Looks like good job.

Edited November 14, 2008 by starfighter2

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Aaaa, thats I mean.

Ok, Wrench, numers are good but when I change this something happened:

I not change anymore.

 

Edited November 14, 2008 by Signum

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Fixed.

[+76.IAP-Blackbird 3,545]

Very intersting project, will be nice to see a possible escort for those babies

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Now we work over weapons and bomb bays.

Edited November 14, 2008 by Signum

[Hubertus 0]

Nice work Signum:D Zajebiscie sie zapowiada samolocik:D

[+EricJ 3,944]

It is looking pretty cool

[Lexx_Luthor 57]

B-70 was made to drop bombs, and I've read it would have been more accurate than ICBMs of the late 1960s. This is one reason of several that I rationalize using B-70 in my fictional Siberian Sky campaign.

 

Escort: At this speed and altitude, another Tu-360 armed with air-air weapons would be the most likely candidate. Think of F-12 escorting A-12s, clearing a penetration corridor of any rising high speed high altitude interceptors. Something like that. I plan on a "possibility" of using B-58 as an escort using early version of F-12 weapons system, until the F-12 (or F-111) becomes usable on a fairly large scale. One B-58 was used to test the F-12 radar and weapons which eventually lead to the F-14A weapons system.

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I think, for 2 months and it can be ready to uploaded here.

Edited November 15, 2008 by Signum

[Wraith27 6]

I think, for 2 months and it can be ready to uploaded here.

 

No No No : ONLY "TWO WEEKS" :rofl: :rofl:

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yes "two weeks"!

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Flares and chaffs fixed.

[the test pilot 5]

how difficult it is to land?

 

it seems quite not-user-friendly when low and slow, from his numbers

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It is very difficult to land.

We must make engine but this is very difficult to make.

somebody can help?

Bomb bays by Ciacho.

Edited November 29, 2008 by Signum

[+SidDogg 130]

It is very difficult to land.

 

Bomb bays by Ciacho.

 

G**---DAMN!!!!!

 

what monstrosity be this???!!!

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Bomb bays are not ended

They need modifications.

Edited November 29, 2008 by Signum

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AAAaaaooooOOOOO UCHCCCHCCHH!!!!

 

And I thought that the B-52 was dangerous ....

 

MAMA MIA