Equipped with ten cruise missile hardpoints
The fourth-generation of Big Body Bombers, this bomber is certified to carry ten cruise missiles, or thirty hardpoints (fifty if you are using small-diameter roll-off ordnance. This was originally built to carry the solid-booster Vympel, but the Strela was a far better pick for it.
It's ten RD-500 engines can push this bomber hypersonic in level flight, and can go suborbital even with a bomb load. It is worldwide capable with a bomb load, being able to glide 200kms without running the engines.
Class- Suborbital-Global Strike
Bomb load: 10 X Strela cruise missiles, 30x mixed diameter bombs on thirty hardpoints, 50 small diameter bombs on thirty under-wing hardpoints plus twenty back-of-wing hardpoints.
Engines: 10x RD-500 azipod engines
Max Speed (atmospheric) 1100m/s
Max Speed (overall) 1700m/s
Max altitude: 24000m with engines hot, 106000m unloaded zoom climb , 22000m with engines hot and loaded, 47000m loaded suborbital.
Dockable: No.
Refuelable: No.
A twin-engine lift and thrust VSTOL fighter, great for distance strike.
A twin-engine lift and thrust VSTOL fighter, great for distance strike.
