February 16, 2008 at 10:33 pm
What do you think of this Russian design for a Mach 3 missile carrier? Only one was ever built and flew 10 times. It reached M1.3, but not any faster. Do you think this plane ever would have reached M3 if flown more times?
By: wilhelm - 18th February 2008 at 09:32
Certain aspects of the T-4 make an interesting aerodynamic comparison to the Tu-144.
By: bdn12 - 17th February 2008 at 23:02
That’s a good point flanker. Never really thought of how much stuff could be written in Russian.
By: Flanker_man - 17th February 2008 at 22:26
Wow. Thats some impressive footage. Too bad there’s not too much info. on the web about the T-4 though. It seems like every site says more or less the same thing.
There’s plenty of info – it just needs translating !!! 🙁

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By: bdn12 - 17th February 2008 at 21:20
Wow. Thats some impressive footage. Too bad there’s not too much info. on the web about the T-4 though. It seems like every site says more or less the same thing.
By: Mondariz - 17th February 2008 at 17:16
By: bazv - 17th February 2008 at 17:08
There is some footage on youtube..sorry I dont know how to post a link,but the video is from….BlackbookN1.
Cheers Baz
By: Mondariz - 17th February 2008 at 14:58
I just found this bit on Wikipedia:
“The T-4 is also believed to be the “aircraft 101″ that set a 2000 km circuit speed record of mach 1.89. This would seem to indicate that it couldn’t cruise at its designed speed of almost Mach 3 and could be a reason the program was canceled.”
and this from http://www.aviation.ru/Su/
“3 built; 1 preserved in Monino; 2 destroyed.”
By: Arthur - 17th February 2008 at 13:57
Yes, it would have. It wasn’t flown nowhere near through it’s entire envelope.