Can you identify this beast?

[moggiee]

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

[Red Snow]

Tupolev Tu-141 on launcher, Tu-143 in foreground

[talk_shy_tall_knight]

DPM Thunderbird 2 on the right?

[Gainesy]

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]

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]

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]

The two larger bombs look more like FAB 3000 conventional HE.

[Balance I Limp]

There's another example of this beast at Monino, Moscow:

[No_Speed_Restriction]

looks more like a....

[judge.oversteer]

Would this be that jet biplane fighter they're asking about on another thread???

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