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By: - 27th October 2004 at 08:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Wow !!
Those photos are really interesting Ken, how come no-one has commented on them ??
Dunno - maybe theyre too busy talking about the RCS on a Tu-160?
From the underwhelming response, I guess that photos of a Soviet ELINT An-74 are of no interest to anyone.
Ken
By: - 27th October 2004 at 08:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Wow !!Those photos are really interesting Ken, how come no-one has commented on them ??
Dunno - maybe theyre too busy talking about the RCS on a Tu-160?
From the underwhelming response, I guess that photos of a Soviet ELINT An-74 are of no interest to anyone.
Ken
Sorry Ken ... They ARE very interesting and I was thinking about that old Toko-kit too ! :diablo:
If I remember right I think I have one left very deep in my collection .... are You intersted ??
Deino :D
By: - 27th October 2004 at 12:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Sorry Ken ... They ARE very interesting and I was thinking about that old Toko-kit too ! :diablo:If I remember right I think I have one left very deep in my collection .... are You intersted ??
Deino :D
Thanks Deino - but I still have a couple left in my stash.
Another An-74 on the 'to do' list is the An-74-300 with underwing engines !
Ken
By: - 27th October 2004 at 19:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
HELLO
Anybody has any pics of the AN-72P with the gun pod and rocket pods.
just cheking for the toko model.
RAFA
By: - 27th October 2004 at 21:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
An-72R or An-74R...? first picture says 72, so does AFM...
By: - 27th October 2004 at 22:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
An-72R or An-74R...? first picture says 72, so does AFM...
Ooops !!
My mistake - complete senior moment there !
Of course it is the An-72R.
Ken
By: - 30th October 2004 at 12:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Sorry for the belated reply - but the pictures are EXTREMELY interesting, as far as i'm concerned. I actually never knew there was another aircraft besides SSSR-783573/39r, but then there is that gutted grey one...
And please don't bicker on An-72R or An-74R, An-88 will do either way ;)
By: - 30th October 2004 at 12:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
And please don't bicker on An-72R or An-74R, An-88 will do either way ;)
Ahhh, Russians and their double designations. Makes you turn mad. On top of all is the Su-27 series, that puts you straight in a mental institution.
Why don't we change the F-16 to F-32s? :diablo: It has got twice the capability it used to have (2x16=32). The designation F-32 won't be used anyway, since the X-32 was turned down. Which also adds an advantage some may think the JSF is delivered already.
While we are at it, let's use a different subvariant system as well. Let's add a A for its attack role as well.
Come on, who is with me?
F-16AM = F/A-32
F-16BM = F/A-32A
Of course it would be called Joint Fighting Falcon
and after next update we call it Super Joint Fighting Falcon
F-16AM = F/A-32+ which would be F/A-33
F-16BM = F/A-32A+ which is the same as F/A-32B and F/A-33A of course
:D
By: - 30th October 2004 at 18:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Sorry for the belated reply - but the pictures are EXTREMELY interesting, as far as i'm concerned. I actually never knew there was another aircraft besides SSSR-783573/39r, but then there is that gutted grey one...And please don't bicker on An-72R or An-74R, An-88 will do either way ;)
Arthur,
Andrei Fomin (who sent me the pics) mentions in AFM (where one of the pics was published) that there were TWO flying An-72R's at GLITS - CCCP-783573/38 and CCCP-84072/39.
He also says (of the An-72R)
"Developed in the mid 1980's together with the An-72's other military derivatives, including the above-mentioned An-71 AEW aircraft, the An-72P tacical ECM aircraft, the An-72RT radio relay aircraft, the An-72R (factory designation 'Item 88') is equipped with a special intelligence suite"....
and.... but for the collapse of the Soviet Union....
"The sad fact is that 12 An-72R's were to have been built and would have entered service with the Soviet Air Force in the 1990's."
Ken
PS - I remember seeing a small photo taken at GLITS a few years back and published in AFM (IIRC) - in the background you could just make out the An-74R.
By: - 30th October 2004 at 18:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
PS - I remember seeing a small photo taken at GLITS a few years back and published in AFM (IIRC) - in the background you could just make out the An-74R.
You're not the only one remembering those Akhtubinsk pics. I believe they were taken by some people on one of those 'Swiss' tours. Funny thing was that of all the photos published, the background was usually the most interesting. A pic on the Scramble cover of the same tour (i believe that one was by Eugene Gadet) showed the tail of a Tu-22M3R in the background...
And thanks for the heads-up on Izdeliye 88 - if you could please pass that on to Andrei Fomin ;)
By: - 7th February 2009 at 10:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Who has it the old photos?:)
By: - 18th October 2009 at 10:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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By: - 18th October 2009 at 18:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
By: - 18th October 2009 at 19:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Those engine are incredible huge for the overall size of that fuselage and wingspan..:eek:
Reminds me a little of the An-32..
Here is a sweet pic with the reverse thrust:
By: - 18th October 2009 at 20:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
"Developed in the mid 1980's together with the An-72's other military derivatives, including the above-mentioned An-71 AEW aircraft, the An-72P tacical ECM aircraft, the An-72RT radio relay aircraft, the An-72R (factory designation 'Item 88') is equipped with a special intelligence suite"....
Wasn't it the An-72PP?
Any photos of that? Drawings?
And how about the RT?
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By: Flanker_man - 25th October 2004 at 22:46
As well as the photo published in AFM for November 2004, here are a couple more.
The first one shows the An-74R at Akhtubinsk a few years back, the other two are from the same batch taken in Kiev.
The An-74R Elint aircraft had two large antenna running down each side of the fuselage, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, never entered service.
Now, where's that Toko kit......?
Ken