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| Description | Tupolev Tu-360 hypersonic bomber for FS2004
The work on a Tu-160 successor began already in the early 1980s, when the bomber was still in the flight test phase. OKB Tupolev produced two designs with different cruise speeds. Tu-260 (Aircraft 230) was designed for Mach 4 and a range of 10,000 km. The Tu-360 was much more ambitious: it was to carry a 10,000 kg offensive load to a distance of 15,000 km at a speed of Mach 6. The design team was led by V. A. Andreyev, who was in charge of aircraft designs powered by natural gas and liquid hydrogen at Tupolev. The Tu-360 was to be powered by six variable-cycle turboramjet engines fuelled with liquid hydrogen. Armament was to be carried in two weapon bays located in the wingroots. Crew consisted of two pilots. According to the draft design, the range requirement could not be achieved, maximum range at Mach 6 being 9,000-10,000 km.
Development of the Tu-360 was closely connected to the Tu-2000 single-stage aerospace plane similar to the American NASP. The prototype Tu-2000A was planned to test technologies for both vehicles, but only some construction work had been carried out before funding for the project stopped in 1992.
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(2004-11-05) | Where can you download that hell of a plane? | hms endeavour
(2005-07-08) | radarman's plane lesson hits again | lds soldier
(2005-07-20) | Kind of a boring A/C thought...how bout some pinstrips at least... | CrashGordon
(2005-08-26) | Is there a FedEx repaint available? :-) | ponchoskier
(2005-10-09) | ????? | hms endeavour
(2006-06-06) | did the construction ever start? | moore
(2006-11-23) | i made a bb gun with an accurate range of 10 miles | flyboy978
(2007-02-14) | it's to white but i like | eagle67
(2007-05-07) | Sweet Plane, Where Can You Download |
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