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Tu-16 Badger - Lifeboat version!

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July 02, 2020, 02:41:37 AM Last Edit: July 02, 2020, 02:46:25 AM by Weaver
Couldn't find a thread for this aircraft, but if there is one and I'm being dumb, please feel free to merge it mods.

Variant here that I'd never heard of: an air-dropped lifeboat version in the 1960s... :o

Posted on Twitter by @TrevClark1958 here: https://twitter.com/TrevClark1958/status/1278614387721416704?s=20

"The USSR brought the WW 2 concept of the aerial lifeboat into the 'jet age' in the early 1960's, with this Tupolev Tu-16C rescue aircraft. The system followed the same principle as one pioneered by the RAF in 1943 and USAAF in 1944, however NATO had abandoned the idea by 1956."

Note: Wikipedia has the designation of the lifeboat-carrying version as Tu-16S.






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ericr

#1
July 02, 2020, 02:51:10 AM
 :thumbsup:
thanks for the link !

zenrat

#2
July 02, 2020, 02:53:29 AM
Lifeboat?  A Tu-16 could probably carry and drop a corvette.
Fred

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Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

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PR19_Kit

#3
July 02, 2020, 03:17:33 AM
Quote from: zenrat on July 02, 2020, 02:53:29 AM

Lifeboat?  A Tu-16 could probably carry and drop a corvette.


If they upgraded the idea to a Tu-95 Bear they could drop an aircraft carrier!  :o :o
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Weaver

#4
July 02, 2020, 05:25:30 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 02, 2020, 03:17:33 AM
Quote from: zenrat on July 02, 2020, 02:53:29 AM

Lifeboat?  A Tu-16 could probably carry and drop a corvette.


If they upgraded the idea to a Tu-95 Bear they could drop an aircraft carrier!  :o :o

Damn, you beat me to it!  ;D

If anyone does a 1/144th or n-gauge cabin cruiser, that would be an amusing thing to hang under a Revell Bear... :wacko:
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PR19_Kit

#5
July 02, 2020, 05:31:06 AM
Quote from: Weaver on July 02, 2020, 05:25:30 AM

Damn, you beat me to it!  ;D

If anyone does a 1/144th or n-gauge cabin cruiser, that would be an amusing thing to hang under a Revell Bear... :wacko:


Thanks to Chrisonord's sale I've got a monster 1/72 Trumpeter Bear, and that's pretty close in scale to 1/76 railway stuff.........  ;)
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Weaver

#6
July 02, 2020, 05:36:43 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 02, 2020, 05:31:06 AM
Quote from: Weaver on July 02, 2020, 05:25:30 AM

Damn, you beat me to it!  ;D

If anyone does a 1/144th or n-gauge cabin cruiser, that would be an amusing thing to hang under a Revell Bear... :wacko:


Thanks to Chrisonord's sale I've got a monster 1/72 Trumpeter Bear, and that's pretty close in scale to 1/76 railway stuff.........  ;)

Airfix Severn Class RNLI lifeboat.... :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
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PR19_Kit

#7
July 02, 2020, 05:48:29 AM
Hmmmm, the Severn is a very tall boat, but then the Bear has a very tall undercarriage too.  ;D

I'll have to wait till my next trip home to see if that will work.
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ericr

#8
July 02, 2020, 06:23:50 AM
 :o :o :o
very impressive announces here : go for it !!
;D

sandiego89

#9
July 02, 2020, 07:13:18 AM
Never knew of this version either.  Thanks for posting.
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Chesapeake, Virginia, USA

sideshowbob9

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July 02, 2020, 08:52:04 AM Last Edit: July 02, 2020, 08:54:09 AM by sideshowbob9
Hmmmm... I'm thinking rapid response airborne mini-DSRV deployment, prior to the arrival of a fully-equipped rescue flotilla?

The Wooksta!

#11
July 02, 2020, 09:26:46 AM
I've a mould somewhere for the lifeboat that went under the Hasegawa Lancaster.  Did a roaring trade a decade back knocking them out under the counter.
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#12
July 02, 2020, 09:32:13 AM
I still have a tu-16 and a tu-160 in1/72, perhaps an assault hovercraft for under the tu-160?? :wacko: :wacko:
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#13
July 02, 2020, 09:48:32 AM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on July 02, 2020, 09:26:46 AM

I've a mould somewhere for the lifeboat that went under the Hasegawa Lancaster.  Did a roaring trade a decade back knocking them out under the counter.


You gave me one, along with a Hawker P.1081 and a zillion  other bits and pieces.  :thumbsup: ;)
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PR19_Kit

#14
July 02, 2020, 09:50:04 AM
Quote from: chrisonord on July 02, 2020, 09:32:13 AM

I still have a tu-16 and a tu-160 in1/72, perhaps an assault hovercraft for under the tu-160?? :wacko: :wacko:


Trumpeter do a USN LCAC hovercraft in 1/72 and 1/144.

I have one of each too.  ;)
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