https://www.pinterest.com/pin/399131585706920828/
http://masterok.livejournal.com/1176215.html?thread=13107351
WHOA Wasnt expectinG that ! Man if a couple of those things got jostled the wrong way and they turned on ! It would be a very bad day for the engineer !
YGW
Obsolete. Soviet Cruse Missels. Wings and comb bottom removed, for more convenient transportation. No warhead.
I bet those gons had a big DO NOT HUMP plackard on them!
DSchmidt that is strange. If they are obsolete why go to all the trouble of transporting them so carefully ? Why notbten in one gondola vs. one and carefully tied in place ?
While the article (dated Jul 17, 2013) is in Russian, which I can’t read, the “livejournal” webpage has a tranlation function. The article says they are obsolete cruse missles. Different versions entered service from 1968 through 1976. The photo taken in Yekaterinburg (the 4th largest city in Russia) is not dated.
Checked Wikipedia, It says the Kh-22 (Kitchen) missle currently in service with the Russian Air Force, It is fired from the Tu-22M (Backfire) bomber. The ariicle has this footnote “423 scrapped after Ukrainian Tu-22M fleet’s decommission”.
– Presumably they are the scraped missles.—
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-22
Wikipedia article on the Tu-22M (Backfire) bomber says in service with the Russian Air Force (upgraded version entered service in 2015) and the Ukranian Air Force However, an article on Ukranian Air Force says their Tu-22M’s scrapped (no date given). shortly after the break-up of the Soviet Union .
Me thunked in mind you had this:
ROAR
An old RDC with jet engines from a B-52 bomber. It was fast, but too noisey and a fuel hog. It ROARED
B-36. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker
6 turnin’ and 4 burnin’
Greater wingspan than a B-52!
–Randy
AKA “Two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking, and two more unaccounted for.” Like jet and turbine powered locomotives of this era, the B-36 had its issues…