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词条 Tupolev Tu-28
释义

  1. Background

  2. Design and development

  3. Operational history

  4. Variants

     Abandoned 

  5. Operators

  6. Specifications (Tu-128)

  7. See also

  8. Notes

  9. References

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The Tupolev Tu-28 (NATO reporting name Fiddler) was a long-range interceptor aircraft introduced by the Soviet Union in the 1960s. The official designation was Tu-128,[2] but this designation was less commonly used in the West. It was the largest and heaviest fighter{{#tag:ref|Tu-128 was the largest fighter assuming that the definition of "fighter" includes an interceptor aircraft. Tu-128 was not intended for fighter-to-fighter combat (i.e. air superiority battle). For an even heavier interceptor design, which did not enter service, see Lockheed YF-12.|name=fi|group=nb}} ever in service.[2][3]

Background

In the 1950s, the Soviet Union sought means to defend against nuclear-armed American bombers possibly penetrating its borders (especially its long and vulnerable northern border), flying from northern Soviet northern bases like Talagi Airport and Savatiya (air base).[4][5][6] Contemporary interceptors, even the Yakovlev Yak-28P, were able to cover only a radius of a few hundred kilometers;[1][7][8] the newly developed surface-to-air missiles had even shorter range[1](the standard Soviet SAM S-75 Dvina's range is 45 km (28 miles)). Considering both, the sheer numbers required to defend a 5,000 km air front{{#tag:ref|The geographical distance between Murmansk and Anadyr is 4,911 km.|group=nb}} were economically impossible to maintain. This left the Soviet Union able to provide a modern air defense only for selected valuable areas.[8] The PVO decided to cover the entire territory, but with a looser defense. In 1955 it placed a requirement for a large area-defense interceptor, that would achieve it with sparse{{#tag:ref|For example, in 1972, a mere six air bases provided the sole interceptor cover for almost a half of the Soviet Union's interior. These bases employed most of the Tu-128 force.[2]{{rp|140}}[7]{{rp|259–262}}|group=nb}} airbases. The PVO requirement called for a supersonic aircraft with enormous fuel tanks for both a good patrol time and long range, a capable radar, and the most powerful air-to-air missiles possible. The first attempt, although unsuccessful, was a 30-tonne Lavochkin La-250 prototype,[8] the last of the Lavochkin design bureau's aircraft.

Design and development

Iosif Nezval[2][8] of Tupolev Design Bureau led development of the new interceptor aircraft. The work began in 1958, based on an existing single prototype of the unsuccessful Tu-98 supersonic bomber. The military designation of the interceptor was at first Tu-28, but it was changed in 1963 to Tu-128, identical to the designation used by the OKB.[1][2][8]

The Tu-128 had a broad, low/mid-mounted swept wing carrying the main landing gear in wing-mounted pods, and slab tailplanes. Two Lyulka AL-7F-2 turbojet engines[1][2] were mounted in the fuselage. The two-man crew of pilot and navigator were seated in tandem.

The Tu-128, with its maximum weight of 43 tonnes, was the heaviest fighter to enter service.[2] It was a bomber-interceptor with high wing loading, unsophisticated but reliable avionics and poor visibility. It was not an agile aircraft.[2] It was intended to combat only NATO bombers like the B-52,[2][8] not engage in dogfights with smaller aircraft.

The interceptor made its initial public appearance in the 1961 Tushino air parade. Western experts, unaware that the bulge on the belly carried testing instruments, mistook it for a large ventral radar for a mixed interceptor/AWACS role.[3] The production version lacked the bulge and had a large nose radome housing a radar, known as RP-S{{#tag:ref|Some sources provide the radar's designation as RP-5 instead of RP-S, possibly a mistake.|group=nb}} Smerch, having a detection range of about 50 km (31 mi[2]) and a lock-on range of about 40 km (25 mi).[1]

Armament of the Tu-128 was four Bisnovat R-4 air-to-air missiles (known as K-80 during development;[1] NATO reporting name AA-5 'Ash'). Usually two of them were R-4Rs with semi-active radar homing and two were R-4T infrared-homing missiles, with the former on the outer pylons and the latter on the inner underwing pylons. There was no internal weapons bay.

Production of the Tu-128 ended in 1970 with a total of 198 aircraft having been built.[1][9]

Development of various projects designated Tu-28A, Tu-28-80, Tu-28-100, Tu-138, and Tu-148 were proposed by the Tupolev Design Bureau but all were abandoned.[1]

Operational history

The Tu-128's only publicly reported combat operation was the destruction of NATO reconnaissance balloons. The aircraft remained in service until 1990.[1][2] Through the 1980s, units armed with the Tu-128 converted to the Mikoyan MiG-31[1][3], which features much more advanced sensors and weapons.[10]

Variants

Prototype of Tu-28 ('Fiddler-A')

Development test aircraft, one built. OKB designation was 128.[1][2][3] In the West, Fiddler-A was used for all the aircraft with twin ventral fins[2] — these included a prototype and a few of initial production (perhaps two[1] planes).

Tu-128 (also known as Tu-28; 'Fiddler-B')

Main version, first deployed operationally in 1964[1] (or 1966[2][8] – sources differ). The military designation was at first Tu-28,[2][8] but the existing aircraft were renamed in 1963.[1][11] The entire weapon complex (aircraft, radar, missiles) was designated Tu-128S-4.[1][2] In the Western sources, but not in Soviet, often the more precise designation of this version[3][7][9] is mentioned as either Tu-28P or Tu-128P.

Tu-128UT (also known as Tu-28UT)

Training version with an additional cockpit forward of the normal one, in place of a radar. ten built and four converted from standard interceptors.[1][11]

Tu-128M

A 1979 modernization of almost all[1] existing aircraft for better interception at low altitude. Development originated in 1970.[2] Engines and airframe were not altered.[1] The full designation of the entire weapons complex was Tu-128S-4M.[1][2][11] It contained a new RP-SM Smerch-M radar, and new missile set: R-4RM plus R-4TM.[1][11]

Abandoned

Tu-28A

New development, abandoned.[1][11]

Tu-28-80

Development designation, abandoned.[1][11]

Tu-28-100

Development designation, abandoned.[1][11]

Tu-138

New development, abandoned.[1][11]

Tu-148

New development, variable geometry wings, abandoned.[1][11]

Operators

{{USSR}}
  • Soviet Air Defence Forces (never exported)[11]

Specifications (Tu-128)

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|jet or prop?=jet
|ref=references[1][2]
|crew=two, pilot and radar operator
|length main= 30.06 m
|length alt= 98.62 ft
|span main= 17.53 m
|span alt= 57.51 ft
|height main= 7.15 m
|height alt= 23.46 ft
|area main= 96.94 m²
|area alt= 1,043.45 ft²
|empty weight main=24,500 kg
|empty weight alt=54,013 lb
|loaded weight main=40,000 kg
|loaded weight alt=88,185 lb
|max takeoff weight main=43,000–43,700 kg[1][2]
|max takeoff weight alt= 94,800–96,342 lb
|more general=Maximum g-loading: 2.5 g
  • Maximum fuel load: est. 13,600 kg (30,000 lb)[3]

|engine (jet)= Lyulka AL-7F-2
|type of jet= afterburning turbojet
|number of jets= 2
|thrust main= 72.8 kN
|thrust alt= 7,425 kgf;[3] 16,370 lbf
|afterburning thrust main= 99.1 kN
|afterburning thrust alt= 10,100 kgf; 22,270 lbf
|max speed main= when armed 1,665 km/h
|max speed alt= 1,035 mph; est. 1.5 Ma
|max speed more= when unarmed 1,920 km/h (1,193 mph)
|endurance=above 3 hours
|ceiling main= 15,600 m when armed
|ceiling alt= 51,184 ft
|range main= 2,565 km when armed
|range alt= 1,595 mi
|range more=
|combat radius main=
|combat radius alt=
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|ferry range main=
|ferry range alt=
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|climb rate main=
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  • Maximum ceiling: 20,000 m (65,617 ft)

|hardpoints= 4
|missiles = 4 × Bisnovat R-4 air-to-air missiles (usually 2 × radar-guided R-4R and 2 × infrared-homing R-4T); other armament or tanks not used
}}

See also

{{commons category|Tupolev Tu-128}}{{aircontent
|see also=
  • North American A-5 Vigilante[12]
  • Boeing B-47 Stratojet
  • Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
  • Convair B-58 Hustler

|related=
  • Tupolev Tu-98
  • Tupolev Tu-22

|similar aircraft=
  • Avro CF-105 Arrow
  • Convair F-106 Delta Dart
  • Lavochkin La-250
  • McDonnell F-101B Voodoo
  • North American XF-108 Rapier

|lists=
  • List of fighter aircraft
  • List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

}}

Notes

1. ^10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 {{cite web|title=Tu-128|url=http://airwar.ru/enc/fighter/tu128.html|publisher=Airwar.ru|accessdate=3 March 2011|language=Russian}}
2. ^10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 {{cite book|last=Kandalov|first=Paul Duffy ; Andrei|title=Tupolev : the man and his aircraft|year=1996|publisher=SAE Internat.|location=Warrendale, PA|isbn=978-1-56091-899-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOC7Ii5SgZUC&lpg=PA138&pg=PA140|accessdate=3 March 2011|pages=137–139}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=The Illustrated Directory of Fighters|isbn=978-0-7603-1343-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p40nOZgeh84C&lpg=PA459&pg=PA458|accessdate=3 March 2011|author1=Spick|first1=Mike|date=5 August 2002}}
4. ^https://www.aerosociety.com/media/3581/aerospace_mar2016.pdf
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/?id=ff-zDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT188&lpg=PT188&dq=tu-128+smerch#v=onepage&q=tu-128+smerch&f=false|title=Soviet Cold War Fighters|first=Alexander|last=Mladenov|date=20 April 2017|publisher=Fonthill Media|accessdate=29 January 2019|via=Google Books}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.aviationsmilitaires.net/v2/base/view/Airfield/823.html|title=AviationsMilitaires.net — Kotlas-Savatiya (Russie)|author=|date=|website=www.aviationsmilitaires.net|accessdate=26 January 2019}}
7. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HoxycYhoKZkC&lpg=PA350&pg=PA262|pages=109–114, 259–262|title=History of Strategic and Ballistic Missile Defense: Volume II: 1956–1972|isbn=9781437921311|author1=Leonard|first1=Barry|date=January 2011}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.russiafile.com/tu28.htm |title=Tupolev Tu-28 |publisher=Russiafile.com |date= |accessdate=8 February 2010}}
9. ^{{cite book|title=Air warfare : an international encyclopedia|year=2002|publisher=ABC-Clio|location=Santa Barabara (Calif.)|isbn=978-1-57607-345-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FW_50wm8VnMC&lpg=PA637&pg=PA637}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russias-super-sized-tu-128-fighter-the-supersonic-b-52-19972|title=Russia's Super-Sized Tu-128 Fighter: The Supersonic B-52 Killer|first=Sebastien|last=Roblin|date=1 April 2017|website=The National Interest|accessdate=29 January 2019}}
11. ^{{cite web|title=WWW.AVIATION.RU|url=http://www.aviation.ru/Tu/|accessdate=5 March 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605015707/http://www.aviation.ru/Tu/|archivedate=5 June 2011|df=}}
12. ^{{cite web|last=Colon|first=Raul|title=Tupolev TU-128 Fiddler|url=http://www.pilotfriend.com/photo_albums/timeline/postwar_mil/101.htm|accessdate=5 March 2011}}

References

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