The Tupolev Tu-125 was an unrealized project to develop a new long-range supersonic bomber for the
Soviet Air Force
The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...
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Development commenced in 1958 to replace the newest
Tu-22
The Tupolev Tu-22 (NATO reporting name: Blinder) was the first supersonic bomber to enter production in the Soviet Union. Manufactured by Tupolev, the Tu-22 entered service with the Soviet military in the 1960s.
The aircraft was a disappointme ...
. The "Tu-125" designation was an internal one used by the
Tupolev
Tupolev (russian: Ту́полев, ), officially Joint Stock Company Tupolev, is a Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Basmanny District, Moscow.
Tupolev is successor to the Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau ( OKB-156, design off ...
design bureau. Since the aircraft was never built, it never received a military designation.
A
canard design was chosen for the aircraft, featuring a
delta
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planform for the wing and stabilizer. Two turbojets (
Kuznetsov NK-6 or
NK-10 (230–240 kN)) were to be installed in nacelles under the wings. A four-turbojet version, powered by
Tumansky R-15
The Tumansky R-15 is an axial flow, single shaft turbojet with an afterburner. Its best known use is on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25.
Design and development
The R-15-300 was designed at the OKB-300 design bureau led by Sergei Tumansky in the lat ...
B-300s in two nacelles also was considered. The fuselage and wings made from titanium and aluminium alloys.
In September
1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
, the Soviet Air Force rejected the project and it was stopped. No aircraft were built.
Specifications (Tu-125 Tumansky engines – estimated)
See also
Notes
References
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Tu-0125
1960s Soviet bomber aircraft
Abandoned military aircraft projects of the Soviet Union
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