early Russian plastic Bison jet bomber model

[RCS]

I found around 2015 in an old box of plastic airplane models. I must have built this Bison at an early age, also note the paints are gloss not flat. They appear to be somewhat close to the original Soviet colors.

Now the landing gear was missing, so I used some 1/4 inch aluminum rod to make the tandem
wheels and painted the tires.

Do not know when it was built - but it is old [ATTACH=CONFIG]138055[

[Bob Womack]

A semi-quote from Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy: "Say what you want but the Soviets know how to build some pretty birds."

Bob

[Sapper740]

Cinders, I have an old Cold War aircraft silhouette recognition manual from the early Seventies. Someone has hand written QRA (Quick Reaction Aircraft?) Aircrew on the cover and it, of course covers the Bison.

[Bob Womack]

I'm interested in the anhedral camber of the wings. Stability? The B-37, B-52, and B-58 were all designed the same way.

Bob

[Sapper740]

I'm interested in the anhedral camber of the wings. Stability? The B-37, B-52, and B-58 were all designed the same way.

Bob

B47? There was a short lived version of the Lockheed Ventura called the B37 but it had regular dihedral wings.

[Bob Womack]

B47? There was a short lived version of the Lockheed Ventura called the B37 but it had regular dihedral wings.

Yep. Typo.

Bob

[CINDERS]

Nice model RCS so good of you to share the model a good discovery with the book as well.

I know here I go again but from my bedraggled brain ~ I forget the type of soviet aircraft think it was a Flanker or Flogger anyway an early Russian fighter that somehow the west got hold of the investigate.
They were appalled to see among the electrics that it still had valves in there how backward they thought that was.
That was until they sat down and really digested what it meant the valve is so much stronger than a circuit board in the event the enemy uses an EMP the fact that ones aircraft without that type of electrical equipment would be grounded in an EMP burst.

So the Soviet fighters would be airborne and be able to survive an EMP and if you think a nuke in space does not affect ground based assets then when the USA detonated one in space it did a real good number on Hawaii.

[Bob Womack]

Nice model RCS so good of you to share the model a good discovery with the book as well.

I know here I go again but from my bedraggled brain ~ I forget the type of soviet aircraft think it was a Flanker or Flogger anyway an early Russian fighter that somehow the west got hold of the investigate.
They were appalled to see among the electrics that it still had valves in there how backward they thought that was.
That was until they sat down and really digested what it meant the valve is so much stronger than a circuit board in the event the enemy uses an EMP the fact that ones aircraft without that type of electrical equipment would be grounded in an EMP burst.

So the Soviet fighters would be airborne and be able to survive an EMP and if you think a nuke in space does not affect ground based assets then when the USA detonated one in space it did a real good number on Hawaii.

It was the Mig-25 Foxbat. A Soviet pilot named Viktor Belenko defected to the U.S. via Japan with one. They used valves (tubes) running in an alcohol (PGA) bath. The radar was so powerful that it was forbidden to turn it on until airborne.

Before his defection and our examination, the aircraft was clocked by Western governments at mach 3.2+. It was assumed that the Mig-25 was a fighter aircraft, and that caused a scare in the West. After our examination and discussions with Viktor we found that it was a pure interceptor, designed to take off, fly as close as possible to a straight intercept course to an attacking bomber, and shoot stand-off missiles to take down the bomber. Air combat maneuvering wasn't really possible with the plane. It was pretty much a pig to fly. The planes that flew the mach 3.2 landed with their engines destroyed. The Mig-25 was limited to mach 2.83 to keep the engines from overheating, and that pretty much in a straight-line intercept course.

It was a brilliant application of the limited technology and metallurgy available to the Soviets.

Bob