The new variant features four new turboprop engines, the Kuznetsov NK-12MPM. The NK-12 remains the most powerful turboprop engine ever to enter service. It also includes a new radar system and a target-acquisition and navigation system using GLONASS, Russia’s equivalent of the US-operated GPS.
Very neat, Sergei. Now stop chimping out so I can get cheap 7.62x39 again.
why would you buy an obsolete bullet fired from an obsolete platform?
What's the point of these? Arent they just cruise missile trucks given that Russia can't SEAD?
There's nothing wrong with using big obsolete bombers as ALCM trucks, that's basically the B-52's job too. The problem is their ALCMs have shit accuracy and they're firing them from over the Capsian to avoid Ukranian counterfire.
Daily reminder that the mighty NK-12 was put into service because of the mediocre performance of early soviet big axial turbojets. It started as a Junkers Jumo 022. Even if the Jumo was bad as the 004 the improvements was done mostly by germans and some soviet engineers.
You can't simply start a turboprop design office and complete a workable design in 2 years and a complete in service engine in less than 6 years. Although early turbo(jet) engines were simple enough to be copied and tested as prototypes in less than 1 year (Japanese Ne-20) if the engineers had previous experience with similar things.
Why does it still have a tail gunner lol
I hope these are upgraded old airframes and not new build.
tail gunners are based and removing them from the B-52 and subsequent bombers is a mistake, the B-21 should have had a laser CIWS in it's ass (Maybe it does and they're hiding it)
shut the fuck up dumbass
>wahhh CIWS doesn't work in the air because it...just doesn't okay???
>he thinks the B-52's tail gun is "CIWS"
>he thinks guns are relevant in the sky in 1972+51
>balloon
>drone
guns are useless
>demoralized retard is so lacking in information that he doesn't know that an AIM-9X downed the chink balloon
>he doesn't know that drones can be locked on to by AIM-9s and AIM-120s
How the fuck did the AIM-9X lock onto the balloon, anyway? I imagine the balloon had little to no heat signature
anon, we're not talking about a balloon like one filled with helium. The SIGINT balloon was a lot more advanced and was producing "some" heat. Modern heatseekers don't need to be staring into a jet's exhaust pipe to lock on, they just need you to be a different temperature than the surrounding air.
AIM-9X has an imaging infrared sensor, it's like a thermal camera with image recognition software, similar to the Javelin. So as long as the object doesn't completely blend into the sky in both visual and IR spectres it can be seen and locked onto.
the B21 is nuclear powered and has multiple DEW weapons
The laser tail gun should be made to look like GOATSE from the outside because a literal butt laser is too good to pass.
>Kuznetsov
Cursed
>GLONASS
oof
These fuckers like to cruise off Alaska and west coast of Canada periodically.
Why are massive turboprops so sexy?
>MOST POWERFUL TURBOPROP EVEr
dude look how hard I can pee
>Russia’s equivalent of the US-operated GPS.
that's a fucking wild claim if i've ever seen one.
t. east euro with firsthand golnass experience.
it is the equivalent just not in capabilities but that's another topic
GLONASS today is only a little worse in accuracy vs GPS. Both are insufficient for pin-point accuracy (although I think GPS can be improved with supplemental beacons for mil applications?) So if the target is a substantial-sized building or a cluster of soft vehicles, etc, a big rocket following GLONASS will be effective.
wonder if they'll still be using Morse on HF like fucking troglodytes
>It also includes a new radar system and a target-acquisition and navigation system using GLONASS, Russia’s equivalent of the US-operated GPS.
But GLONASS only has reliable coverage from within the Russian Federation. What's the point of having a Strategic Bomber that becomes almost blind and deaf as soon as it leaves your airspace?