Engineering:Myasishchev M-18
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Short description: Type of aircraft
| M-18 | |
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| General information | |
| National origin | Soviet Union |
| Manufacturer | Myasishchev |
The Myasishchev M-18 was a design for a Soviet supersonic bomber with a variable-sweep wing.[1] The aircraft was developed in response to a Soviet 1972 program for a new multi-misson, supersonic, variable geometry wing strategic bomber, with a maximum speed of Mach 2.3, as a response to the U.S. Rockwell B-1 Lancer program. The project was dropped in favour of the Tupolev Tu-160 program. Although the design was the most successful compared to the Tu-160 and Sukhoi T-4,[2] it was dropped as Tupolev had the most potential to go ahead with the supersonic bomber project.[3][4]
In 1973, Tupolev was assigned the development of a new aircraft based on the Myasishchev design.[3]
References
- ↑ Buttler, Tony; Gordon, Yefim; Gordon, E. (2004). Soviet secret projects: Bombers since 1945. Midland. pp. 149, 151. ISBN 9781857801941. https://books.google.com/books?id=FNghAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- ↑ Sergeyev, Pavel (30 April 2008). "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ru). Lenta.ru. http://pda.lenta.ru/articles/2008/04/30/tu/. - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Russia Air Force Handbook. USA: International Business Publications. 7 February 2007. p. 154. ISBN 9781433041150. https://books.google.com/books?id=CXIqAwAAQBAJ. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ↑ Pike, John; Vick, Charles; Jacubowski, Mirko; Garrett, Patrick (2000-08-08). "Tu-160 BLACKJACK (TUPOLEV)". https://nuke.fas.org/guide/russia/bomber/tu-160.htm.
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