hesham said:In my files a surprise,
there was a Project for Su-24 with additional air intake mounted over the fuselage,
and of course behind the cockpit,does anyone know it or has a drawing to it ?.
starviking said:hesham said:In my files a surprise,
there was a Project for Su-24 with additional air intake mounted over the fuselage,
and of course behind the cockpit,does anyone know it or has a drawing to it ?.
I've never heard about it. Something like the 3-engined Vigilante interceptor proposed by NAR?
hesham said:In my files a surprise,
there was a Project for Su-24 with additional air intake mounted over the fuselage,
and of course behind the cockpit,does anyone know it or has a drawing to it ?.
It never existed. Su-24BM2 that was transition from Su-24BM to T-60S, had TWO intakes on top of the fuselage though.hesham said:there was a Project for Su-24 with additional air intake mounted over the fuselage,
and of course behind the cockpit,does anyone know it or has a drawing to it ?.
flateric said:It never existed.
The Su-24MM project ("minor modification") assumed the installation of the latest REO and associated high-precision weapons, as well as more powerful (and simultaneously more economical and less "noticeable" in the infrared range) two-loop AL-31F engines from the Su-27 , which were then still in abundance.
But the AL-31F was characterized by a much higher air flow through the compressor, and for them it was necessary to make a third air intake over the fuselage, which looked rather unusual. For this, Su-24MM in the company received the nickname "stillborn monster", which turned out to be prophetic - and soon this program was discontinued. This time in favor of percussion modifications of one of the most successful OKB aircraft - the Su-27. By the way, at the turn of the eighties, the Americans tried to radically upgrade their F-111s. Taking advantage of the delay in launching the heavy strategic bomber Rockwell B-1B, General Dynamics proposed a much cheaper FB-111H project. But its capabilities turned out to be incomparably lower than those expected from the machine of a fundamentally new development, and they refused it.
flateric said:Su-24MM had two small additional inlets on top for feeding AL-31Fs.
PaulMM (Overscan) said:Indeed. This is an early Su-24 mockup - there were alternative designs with engine intakes sloping up and down.