MAIN FEATURES
Wingtip fairing with
retractable levered
suspension twin
wheeled outrigger
Bomb bay (doors open) provision for
conventional and nuclear payloads
up to 24,000 kg (52,910 lb)
Inboard flap (lowered)
shaped to conform to
exhaust profile
Forward retracting, steerable nose
gear unit with four wheel bogie
Outboard flap (lowered)
Bicycle main gear unit configuration
Forward retracting rear
main gear four wheel bogie
Tail turret with 2 x Afanas'yev AM-23A 23 mm
(.90 in) cannons with 400 rounds per gun
RBP-4 nav/mapping radar
ECM blister
SRZO-2 IFF antenna
SRZO-2 IFF antenna
OPB-11S optical bombsight
DB-33A barbettes with 2 x Afanas'yev AM-23A
23 mm (.90 in) cannons with 300 rounds per gun
LPS-53M sighting station for
ventral cannon barbette
PPS-53M sighting station for
ventral cannon barbette
VPS-53M sighting station for
dorsal cannon barbette
Dorsal ADF strake antenna
(offset to starboard)
Avionics: RSBN-2S Svod SHORAN, DISS-1 Doppler
system, MRP-4A marker beacon receiver, GPK-52
directional gyro, RV-2 Kristall/RV-17 radio
altimeters, ARK-5 Amur ADF, NI-50BN navigation
display, ANU-1A air nav system, SP-1 star
tracker, 2 x 1-RSB-70 HF radios, 2 x RSIU-4V UHF
radio, Kedr emergency radio, SPU-10 intercom,
3 x PAU-457 gun cameras, VB-53M ballistic
computer, SRZO-2 Khrom--Nikel IFF
Outboard flap (lowered)
extended aft
AFA-42 day or NAFA-75 night
camera in rear fuselage
KPS-53M sighting
station for tail canons
M-3MD (NATO – Bison)
(armed and dirty)
Fin with 35º leading edge sweep
Pressurised forward
cockpit section
Pressurised rear
gunner section
De-icing on leading edges
Area-increasing TsAGI flaps
(modified Fowler flaps)
Large outboard aileron
Shaped flap
under exhausts
Boundary layer fences
on upper wing surface
Tailplanes positioned low on tailfin
Wingtip fairing
for outrigger
wheels
4 x Dobrynin (RKBM)
VD-7B turbojets
Port side
'towel rail'
antenna
Bomb bay
Fixed IFR probe
Dorsal ADF strake antenna
Star tracker
fairing
Staggered engine
layout
Lower radome
Bomb aimer
gondola
Navigator position/glazing
Optically-flat bomb aimer window
Heavily glazed/framed flight deck
Elliptical glazed
blisters
Outboard cant
to exhausts
Elliptical glazed blisters
Large rudder
Rear gun radar fairing
Flight deck escape hatch
Downward-firing, cartridge-fired
ejection seats for all crew members,
through jettisonable ventral/entry
hatches
Mid-mounted, trapezoidal
wing with 35º leading edge
sweep, 1º50' anhedral and
2.5º incidence
Crew (7): Captain, Co-pilot/Flight Engineer,
Navigator/Bomb Aimer, ECM Officer/Gunner,
Gunner/Radio Operator, Dorsal Gunner,
Tail Gunner
Intakes on upper fuselage
(port and starboard)
Wingtip outrigger fairing
Dorsal/ventral cannon barbettes
Tailplanes with 33.5º leading
edge sweep, adjustable angle of
incidence between +1.5º/-2.5º
M-3MD (NATO – Bison)
(clean)
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