Say no more,

This is the one I'm converting into an M-52 missile carrier,
http://www.anigrand.com/AA4002_M-50.htmIf you notice the bottom pic shows the finished model, and unusually for Anigrand they got it wrong!The outer wings have sweep and the cockpit and spine are too wide!!However, these are all correct for the M-52!!...Maybe they had the wrong plans when designing it!!...very strange, (at least it makes my job easier)...
Fun and games getting into the thing!!

Also ...yep the engines were turbojets, a mix of two types, the Dobrynin VD-7M and the VD-7B, only the inner engines had afterburners and the performance was quite poor, if only they had fitted the intended engines how different the story would have been. The production M-52 was to have four substantially more powerful Zubets 16-17 turbojets. Apparently the M-52 was built though never flown, but as these pictures show it is more likely a mockup, ( notice the support trestles, dodgy shiny tyres and third undercarriage leg in the centre), it was to be an integrated missile system using two AS-4 Kitchens, a rudimentary 'fly by wire' system plus an inertial navigation system and at least one other variant was to be built as an ECM platform, (again more likely an ECM jammer pretty much like the TU-22 KPD Blinders)...
Still, a nice little project that I'll crack on with in the near future...
Anyway this is the M-52,


