Tu-22M3 Backfire C Strategic bomber. TRUMPETER 01656

Unassambled plastic model kit of a Tu-22M3 Backfire C Strategic bomber.

The Tu-22M3“Backfire-C” was the latest version of Tu-22M Family. She equipped a new engines，two NK-25 engines replacing the original NK-22s made it capable of Mach 1 at low level and has a max speed of Mach 2.05. Also the maximum wing sweep was increased back to 65 degrees. The Tu-22M3 was also armed with a new weapon Kh-22.No Tu-22M Backfires were exported. Russia remains the biggest operator of the type, Ukraine is the only other operator, It inherited a large number of Tu-22M3 from the Soviet Union. But all of them was scrapped in 2005.