Country of Origin. CIS (formerly USSR).
Similar Aircraft.
Canberra,
Yak-28 Brewer.
Crew. Three.
Role. Light bomber, trainer.
Armament. Bombs, two 23-mm cannons in tail.
Dimensions. Length: 57 ft, 11 in (17.6 m). Span: 70 ft, 5 in (21.5 m).
Wings. High-mounted with straight leading edge and forward-tapered trailing
edge with blunt tips.
Engine(s). Two turbojets mounted beneath the wings in pods. Pods extend beyond wings— leading and trailing edges.
Fuselage. Tubular and cigar-shaped tapering to the rear. Rounded, glassed-in nose. Bubble
canopy.
Tail. Fin is swept-back and tapered with a blunt tip. Flats are low-mounted on the fin,
swept-back, and tapered with blunt tips. A glassed-in tail gunner compartment is to the rear of the tail.
Egypt, North Korea (H-5), People’s Republic of China (H-5).
Updated: 03 February 2008 | Born 04 September 2000 |