chang autism>based on a Tupolev Tu-4 (so copy of a copy)>slap some turboprops on it>mount a big ass radome on top>abandon project cus commie retardation
I love shit like this pushed to the absolute limit of autism, the turboprop Mustang is great too
>>62788868Honestly not the worst idea on paper
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>>62788868Looking at the flying flapjack, could you make a radome part of the lifting surface?
>>62791127I'm not sure how well (if at all) the flapjack's design would scale.Any aviation engineering dorks around to chime in? What's the largest feasible flapjack you could build?
>>62790971That's pretty autistic, but if they based this on Beriev A-40 jet float plane, it would reach autismus maximus.
>>62788868looks look, bet it cooked the crew like a microwave though going by early soviet AWACS
>>62791228Sadly that isn't a sufficiently mainstream platform.The world will just have to suffer A50 as the Russian flying donut carrier, the same platform they used for their Flying Laser Testbed
>>62791377>bet it cooked the crew like a microwave though going by early soviet AWACSThere were never a single piece of electronics inside that radome, because even early 50, vacuum-tube based russian Liana radar from Tu-126 was completely incomprehensible magic for minions of comrade Mao
>>62791172>props>air intakes with control conesI'm confused here. Does this thing had turbo props AND jest engines? Where are the jet nozzles?
>>62791420wow excellent crew comfort, implessive
>>62791441>jest enginesJET engines!fuckig stupid autocorrect...
>>62791228Idea of small, tactical AWACS with STOL capabilities that could operate from rudimentary airstrips in the middle of Siberian nowhere looks great on paper for Soviet Politbiuro. Of course, like with vast majority of commie ideas when confronted with reality it was a total and absolute failure, because what they do not understand was that AWACS, even a small one is merely a part of a much bigger system that require logistics, maintenance, crew management, communication as so on.Instead they planned on just throwing an aircraft, pilots and few ground crew members equiped with a tent and few cans of tushonka onto a piece of roughly flattened strip of tundra few kilometers from Frozenballskaya hunting outpost and expected them to work for the glory of Lenin.
>>62790971>Steppe: the final frontier>These are the voyages of the starship Blyaterprise>its 3 day SMO>to loot strange new washing machines>to seek out indoor plumbing and vodka>to Dedovshchina what no man has Dedovshchina'd before!
>>62791518>we want this capability, but we don't want to spend money getting there>what do you mean the solution sucks!tale old as time. It's a cool aircraft though. Boeing had a similar prototype for a cargo aircraft
>>62788868Imagine being one of the poor souls bathing in the radiation on those early AWACs
>>62791441Nah, no jet engines. Those are the intakes for the engines that drive the props, the props are offset from the engines. I don't know what linkage they used, I'm guessing they're driven by a chain, I dunno.
>>62791518Heh...
>>62791518How much STOL do you want with that.
