[Milsurplus] Re: Russian "B-29"...

[Bob Camp]

Hi,

They certainly did duplicate the ART-13. I get the impression that they 
did this before the whole B-29 thing came up. It would not surprise me 
at all to find that we sold (or gave) them a bunch of ART-13's and they 
took it from there.

	Enjoy!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ


On May 5, 2004, at 8:49 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:

> Ken wrote:
>
>> The one they copied also had a large patch on one side, low down
>> near the front on the left side which covered some battle damage.
>
> There's been a considerable amount of debate over how many such 
> reports are mythological.  With three B-29s for the Soviet engineers 
> to examine, it would have been unlikely for battle-damage repairs on 
> one aircraft to have been incorporated as a design feature into the 
> Soviet version (the Tu-4, NATO-designated "Bull").
>
> I wonder about how much of the B-29 avionics was duplicated.   The 
> B-29 would certainly have had the AN/ARN-5/RC-103/RC-193 instrument 
> landing system, but did the Soviets have any corresponding ground 
> equipment to make it worth the effort to duplicate?  There was also a 
> large amount of electronic countermeasures equipment and bombardment 
> and fire control electronics which might have been worth duplicating.  
> I also wonder whether they duplicated the AN/ARC-8 (ART-13, BC-348).  
> Some time ago I saw a photo of the cockpit of a surviving Tu-4.  On 
> the right side was a box that very clearly was an almost exact 
> duplicate of the C-87/ART-13 control box.  That leads me to think that 
> they likely copied closely the entire AN/ARC-8.  It would seem that 
> the B-29's AN/ARC-3 VHF sets would have been worth duplicating.  Maybe 
> there was a C-118/ARC-3 duplicate in the photo that escaped my notice. 
>  I'd sure like to get a chance to crawl around in that Russian 
> museum's Tu-4.  Too bad the USAF Museum at Dayton doesn't have some of 
> these in its collection.
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
>
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