Tu-22M4 Backfire-D?

[JFC Fuller]

By my own admission I know next to nothing about this and it is not for want of effort. All I have come across so far is that is was an improved version of the Tu-22M3 (fairly obvious really) and that is flew in 1990 but never entered production. My own speculation is that it included airframe/aerodynamic improvements as well as avionics ones. My suspicion is that the Tu-22M5 upgrade uses the M4 avionics in the M3 airframe but I am probably wrong? ???

Any information would be greatly appreciated and as always thank you in advance sealordlawrence.

 

[paralay]

Rus http://paralay.com/22m.html

Eng http://www.translate.ru/url/tran_url.asp?lang=ru&url=http://paralay.com/22m.html&direction=re&template=General&cp1=NO&cp2=NO&autotranslate=on&transliterate=on&psubmit2.x=47&psubmit2.y=16

 

[flateric]

Ugh...words that Russian AF plans to withdraw Tu-95MS and Tu-160 from the service till the end of 2005 makes me feel that news are pretty old.

 

[paralay]

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

The book Soviet Secret Projects: Bombers Since 1945 says that the Tu-22M4 prototype may have received the project designation '245'. The Tu-22M3M/M5 clearly uses the NK-32 engines that power the Tu-160 supersonic bomber and has modernized avionics and a digital glass cockpit; it flew recently in December 2018 (https://tass.com/defense/1038351).

 

[flateric]

'Clearly'?

 

[World B4]

Tu-22M4 (Russia)

Combat Identification & Photography

www.recomonkey.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1335524862161465348

View: https://twitter.com/DnKornev/status/1335524862161465348

Ту-22М, сверхзвуковой бомбардировщик

Ту-22М («изделие 45») по кодификации НАТО: Backfire) — дальний сверхзвуковой ракетоносец-бомбардировщик с изменяемой геометрией крыла. ...

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[World B4]

Also, for those of you who think the passenger Tu-95 and MiG-31 ideas were funny enough, behold: the 344 design

"344" Туполева

Проект сверхзвукового пассажирского самолета Ту-344

www.testpilot.ru