Scale model 1/144 TU-142MR"Bear-J" Trumpeter 03905

Scale plastic model 1/144 TU-142MR"Bear-J"
The Tupolew Tu-142 is a Soviet long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft and a ZOP aircraft, which is a far-reaching modification of the Tu-95. The Tu-142 received the Bierkut-95 search and targeting system; It consists of a radar station, also called Bierkut, Ladoga magnetometer, equipment for receiving signals from hydroacoustic buoys and a digital on-board computer Płamia B-142 (CWM-263). The prototypes were also equipped with the Gagar device for detecting the thermal trace left by the ship, the Kwadrat-2 radio reconnaissance station and the Riezieda interference station, but they were not installed on the serial aircraft. Inside the two weapons chambers, the aircraft carried hydroacoustic buoys, torpedoes and missile torpedoes, depth charges or mines. Among the many loading variants, the most typical was the search-and-attack one with 176 RGB-1 buoys,