A TsAGI study of the 1950s which greatly influenced Myasishchev and Tupolev.

I’m bumping a two-year-old post, but Jozef Gatial has an impression of this design here:

http://www.planespictures.com/data/6Rusia/Tupolev/Tu-135_sc1.jpg

Here’s a variation on the twin-boom configuration from the early ’80s; the HS P1214.3

They’re an interesting slice of history – essentially, they’re what the 1980s thought stealth fighters should have looked like. The most accurate was probably the Italeri kit of the fictional Mig 37 ‘Ferret’ – that got the idea of facted design correct, at least.

Quoted text from Bill Sweetman’s F-22 Raptor. Motorbooks 1998. ISBN 0-7603-0484-X

“It was one of the heavier ATF designs, and its performance was not promising. McDonnell Douglas was shocked to be placed fifth in the evaluation, behind Boeing.”

“Runner-up to Lockheed and Northrop was General Dynamics, with a tailless delta design that reflected the success of the arrow-winged F-16XL”.

You’re right; I realised the mistake a while after I’d posted.

Josef Gatial now has images of the P1134 as well, at:

http://www.planespictures.com/index.php?c=1&t=1

The odd thing is; there’s nothing else at all on this aircraft anywhere (at least via Google) apart from the above images and this thread. Even the Tony Buttler book, which I’m assuming is the one GDL means, doesn’t mention it. You’d have thought with those specs. it would have a higher profile.