Talk:Tupolev Tu-22M

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Folks, it's incorrect to mix the "Tu-XXX" designations assigned to the aircrafts which have entered service and internal OKB's project numbers, which are ancestors of the antient "ANT-XXX" developments of A.N.Tupolev and his bureau.

Actually, Tu-22s was named just "aircraft 103, aircraft 105, etc" within the OKB.

Yes, there are exceptions. For instance, Tu-95 exactly match its development name "aircraft 95". The reason was simple: all the documentation was passed to the production facility with title Tupolev "95" and the governmental regulatory decided to leave it intact to preserve time and money on re-printing of all the docs.

--jno 11:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tu-22 vs Tu-22M*

NOTE: The image showing the aircraft at the outdoor museum is NOT a Tu-22M Backfire. It is a Tu-22 Blinder bomber which was a completely different aircraft. The Backfire was heavily based off of its design so the two aircraft are often confused. An easy way to tell the difference between them is the engine intake shape. The Tu-22M has forward-slanting intakes, whereas the Tu-22 has vertical intakes.

Why not to visit Tupolev Tu-22 and see the actual Tu-22? Original "Blinder" has engines near the tail! And fixed wing. Good thing to know: Tu-22 and Tu-22M (or Tu-22M0) have in common the two things only: the fore leg of gear and bomb bay cover. The reason why a completely different design has taken the name from an elder one is political (N.S.Khruschev want not assign money for new aircraft developments, while VVS needed a new aircraft. Hence, the new aircraft was developed as "deep upgrade" of Tu-22).

Visual differences: