Tupolev '136' Zvezda, the Soviet Dynasoar

[Vahe231991]

The Tupolev Design Bureau may have been famous for its wide portfolio of civil and military aircraft designs, including strategic and tactical bombers, airliners, flying boats, experimental heavy fighters, and also reconnaissance drones and the biggest jet interceptor ever built. However, Tupolev also proposed a spaceplane designed to be launched into orbit by a large SLV, the '136' Zvezda (star). The '136' would have been the Soviet response to the Boeing X-20 Dynasoar, and like the X-20 it was not built. Detailed information about the Tupolev '136' Zvezda can be found at these pages:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/russia/tu-136.htm
https://danielmarin.naukas.com/2015/04/09/tupolev-tu-136-el-avion-orbital-sovietico-olvidado/
https://www.kosmo.cz/data/Energiya_-_Buran_The_Soviet_Space_Shuttle.pdf (see pages 26 and 27 of this book for info about the Tupolev '136' Zvezda)

[Dmitry_V_home]

130, 136:
https://testpilot.ru/russia/tupolev/136/

[Vahe231991]

130, 136:
https://testpilot.ru/russia/tupolev/136/

Thanks for this link. The Tupolev '130' (aka DP [Dal'niy Planer=long-range glider]) was not an orbital vehicle, but instead a hypersonic glide vehicle designed to be carried to altitude by an R-5 or R-12 ballistic missile. While the '130' was never built or tested, its design would influence that of the '136'.