Tu-16 Badger - Lifeboat version!

[Gondor]

Just checked my book on the Tu-95/Tu-142 and didn't find any reference to carrying lifeboats, however I did only skim through the book looking at the pictures.

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

And that's a reason why one shouldn't be built? 

[Rheged]

And that's a reason why one shouldn't be built? 

Surely it's a reason why one SHOULD be built.

[PR19_Kit]

And that's a reason why one shouldn't be built? 

Surely it's a reason why one SHOULD be built.

Precisely......

[scooter]

A Shannon might work


A USCG 45' MRB might work.  The cabin might need some refinement

[tigercat]

I think we need a lifeboat mounted under a V bomber to close the ASR gap .

[sideshowbob9]

Fulton Skyhook equipped Buccaneer towing a hydrofoil...no nurse not the green pills again!

[Gondor]

And that's a reason why one shouldn't be built? 

Surely it's a reason why one SHOULD be built.

Precisely......

I was simply pointing out that it was not a real world project so ideal as a whiff

Gondor

[zenrat]

And that's a reason why one shouldn't be built? 

Surely it's a reason why one SHOULD be built.

Precisely......

I was simply pointing out that it was not a real world project so ideal as a whiff

Gondor

OK.  Just as long as you are not going all rivet counter on us.  We were concerned.

Any of those lifeboats could be carried by either the Tu-95Z zwilling or the Tu-95T(ophe) asymmetric if they were fitted with a suitable cradle.

Tophe, fire up your drawing automata and show us how!

[PR19_Kit]

I like that idea, all I need is a 1/72-76 Shannon. Or someone with a 3D printer......

Hang on, my mate Pete (him with the teeny weeny lathe) has one. 

[ericr]

Any of those lifeboats could be carried by either the Tu-95Z zwilling or the Tu-95T(ophe) asymmetric if they were fitted with a suit le cradle.

Tophe, fire up your drawing automata and show us how!

[NARSES2]

I think we need a lifeboat mounted under a V bomber to close the ASR gap .

Or mount it on top of a Vulcan (upside down of course) and then the Vulcan simply performs a roll when it wants to drop the lifeboat 

[Army of One]

Lifeboats....? What's all this talk about lifeboats.....? Think attack....!! A smaller MTB....a 2 or 3 man crew with maybe a couple of torpedoes.....maybe stealth characteristics.....dropped over the horizon infront/behind targets to chase/lay in wait.....

[PR19_Kit]

Hmmm, I've got an Airfix 1/72 MTB kit somewhere. I wonder if it will fit under a Shackleton?

[tigercat]

There's a 1/72 Seehund submarine kit