Mother Russia

[HorusJ]

Ohhhh wow!!! You're killing me Mike with all the Russian birds. Please don't stop!

[RKE]

Thanks for the heads up Mike. If you want the list of bort numbers I'm using and their associated RF- registrations & names (where they exist, anyway), just let me know

[Firebird]

It will nice to see the Indian Navy ones floating around the Indian Ocean as well. Very cool.

[RKE]

Yeah, a terrible shame they'll be phased out and replaced with the "boring" P-8's.

[jimrodger]

Brings back some lovely memories from a long time ago

Bear FIII.jpg

Bear FIII BB.jpg

Jim

[mikeblaze]

Almost ready for multi-LOD models.......

[TheFoufure]

Great !!!

I'hope some specialists in AI Trafic can make some FP with these aircraft flying longside Norway etc...and Scotland.

[RKE]

Great !!!

I'hope some specialists in AI Trafic can make some FP with these aircraft flying longside Norway etc...and Scotland.

Already done those, with a waypoint quite deep into the North Sea

[mikeblaze]

Just remember, please, post your flightplans to AVSIM and/or Flightsim, as a lot of people who like these aircraft don't come to this forum. Also, posting this particular set of flightplans to AVSIM.rus would also be a very kind gesture; as I post all of my Russian creations there now.

Thanks.

[shaggy22]

The SU24 fp's will go up (on Avsim & Avsim.rus) pretty soon, just applying the finishing touches to them.

[RKE]

Just remember, please, post your flightplans to AVSIM and/or Flightsim, as a lot of people who like these aircraft don't come to this forum. Also, posting this particular set of flightplans to AVSIM.rus would also be a very kind gesture; as I post all of my Russian creations there now.

Thanks.

I plan to put the whole lot into a Long Range Aviation Command package, with Bear, Blackjack & Backfire flightplans, waypoints & VCPmods.

.. and a readme apologising for the shoddy quality of all of it

[Fastair]

Now that sounds awesome !!!

Thank you all so much for your hard work

Paul

[mikeblaze]

Not sure if I mentioned it on this thread, I did exchange some email with Sergey Bunevich, and he is planning to finish the Tu-160 at some point, hopefully this renewed interest in long range Russian aviation from the West will encourage him to go a little faster, lol.

[Garysb]

Just remember, please, post your flightplans to AVSIM and/or Flightsim, as a lot of people who like these aircraft don't come to this forum. Also, posting this particular set of flightplans to AVSIM.rus would also be a very kind gesture; as I post all of my Russian creations there now.

Thanks.

I plan to put the whole lot into a Long Range Aviation Command package, with Bear, Blackjack & Backfire flightplans, waypoints & VCPmods.

.. and a readme apologising for the shoddy quality of all of it

I should think so totally unacceptable


Gary

[TheFoufure]

Great !!!

I'hope some specialists in AI Trafic can make some FP with these aircraft flying longside Norway etc...and Scotland.

Already done those, with a waypoint quite deep into the North Sea

Already done ? And where can I find them please ? Thanks a lot.

[RKE]

Great !!!

I'hope some specialists in AI Trafic can make some FP with these aircraft flying longside Norway etc...and Scotland.

Already done those, with a waypoint quite deep into the North Sea

Already done ? And where can I find them please ? Thanks a lot.

Sitting on my harddrive for the time being

As I said above, I'll release the whole lot in one go. Just putting the finishing touches on the Shaikovka Backfires and deciding if the Baltic Sea run will consist of a 2 or 3-ship flight

[mikeblaze]

For the retro-heads, this is my intended model plan for this aircraft...... about 3/4 are done in alpha single-LOD form, and all are distinctively different physical models.

Tu-95M Bear-A, original production bomber, no refuel probe
Tu-95K Bear-B, the original missile carrier, carries one KSR-2/AS-5 Kelt (big-ass anti-shipping missile)
Tu-95KD Bear-B, a -95K with inflight refuel boom
Tu-95K-22 Bear-C, has a modified barb tail replacing the tail gun, carries two KSR-5/AS-6 Kingfish
Tu-95MR Bear-E, first-generation long-range recce variant, sometimes mis-named the -95MP (Cyrillic P is Roman R); basically a Tu-95M with a refuel probe
Tu-95RTs Bear-D, the better-known maritime recce variant, based off of the Tu-142
Tu-95MS Bear-H, the current version, carrying the Kh-55/AS-15 Kent cruise missile internally in a rotary launcher (Tomahawk'ski)
Tu-95V Bear-A, carrying the Tsar Bomba, the 100MT big cahuna, just throwing this in 'cause I can.

Tu-142 Bear-F, the original maritime patrol/ASW aircraft. The Tu-142 is a whopping 12 inches longer than the Tu-95, so the physical AI fuselage is the same for both, I'm not losing sleep over it.
Tu-142M Bear-F, follow-on version
Tu-142MZ Bear-F, the current version
Tu-142M3 Bear-J, a dedicated ABCCC (airborne command/control/communication) aircraft used to talk to submarines. This has some unique features I want to model, such as a extendable towed-array ESM antenna which operates like a refuel probe, so I am researching the XML help on this forum to enable that.

Tu-114 civilian airliner variant, just a different fuselage, for AI it uses the same wing/gear/engine setup
Tu-126 AEW aircraft, based upon the Tu-114 fuselage

Once I have gotten the basic model done, it's not as hard as it sound, really.

[HorusJ]

Impressive list Mike,VERY impressive!

[mikeblaze]

Here's the other "half" of the project....... The Tu-114 airliner and Tu-126 AEW aircraft, just a fuselage change, really, plus some adjustment on the FDE for center-of-gravity and such.

[Firebird]

Ahhh, a rolling stone gathers no .... something or other .