View Full Version : Can you identify this beast?
moggiee
5th May 2009, 14:45
I know that the collective wisdom of PPRUNE will come through on this one. Someone I know snapped a picture of this in the Kiev Aviation Museum but forgot to note what it is. I'm referring to the great big Thunderbirds-type jobbie on the green launcher(?) in the background.
As an ex-truckie I didn't worry too much about recce - if they were close enough to be seen by naked eye, I was about to die!
Thanks
http://englishrussia.com/images/aviation_museum_ukraine/25.jpg
Red Snow
5th May 2009, 15:03
Tupolev Tu-141 on launcher, Tu-143 in foreground
talk_shy_tall_knight
5th May 2009, 15:09
DPM Thunderbird 2 on the right?
Gainesy
5th May 2009, 15:11
Is that cammo thing an SS-20 launcher? And some seriously big bombs, none of that stuff was there a few years back though there was a neat armoured train.
moggiee
5th May 2009, 15:14
Cheers folks - extensive Googling had achieved the same ident whilst you were coming up with those answers. It's been suggested that the big grey jobs are fuel-air bombs.
Many thanks.
Lightning Mate
6th May 2009, 08:07
Red Snow is correct, Tu 141 and 143.
The green camouflaged tube "jobber" on the far right is the transport/launcher system for the Tu143. The reconnaisance drone was launched using a rocket booster and recovered by parachute. Early '80s stuff if my memory serves correctly.
I have no idea what the bombs are though. Give me eight BL755s please.....
LM
wlakes
6th May 2009, 12:43
The two larger bombs look more like FAB 3000 conventional HE.
Balance I Limp
6th May 2009, 13:24
There's another example of this beast at Monino, Moscow:
http://www.wowwebwork.com/aviation/images/monino_2009/Monino%20Web-0147.jpg
No_Speed_Restriction
6th May 2009, 13:31
looks more like a....
http://www.revell.de/starwars/reqRessources/img/produkte/abb_xWing-fighter.jpg
judge.oversteer
6th May 2009, 15:39
Would this be that jet biplane fighter they're asking about on another thread???
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