Like most committee’s designs , this one had one fatal flaw , you can take ammunition or food but not both .
The committee’s idea to convert the engines to borscht is almost as bad as feeding the airpeople avfuel .
Apparently , the nuclear powered version that drove electric engines never got off the runway at Pripyat . Not enough borscht or too much borscht, nobody knows for sure and nobody’s talking .
The conversion of the engines to run on vodka was a disaster as the crew consumed the vodka at twice the rate of engine consumption and the plane reached bingo fuel just taxing out to the runway some days .