Can you identify this beast?
 

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/avia...ukraine/25.jpg

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

DPM Thunderbird 2 on the right?

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.

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.

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

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

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

http://www.wowwebwork.com/aviation/i...20Web-0147.jpg

looks more like a....

http://www.revell.de/starwars/reqRes...ng-fighter.jpg

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

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