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Only a matter of time before I saw this one 😎

No Tu-144 ever had thrust reversers.

The landing length of the Tu-144 prototype: 4,920 ft (1500m)
The landing length of the Tu-144S: 8,530 ft (2600m)

Those figures are without using braking parachutes (well, at least for the Tu-144S, maybe not for the prototype), which are obviously not a good thing to be dropping all over civillian runways 😀