Tu-128 FIDDLER
The Tupolev Tu-128 Fiddler, a derivative of the Tu-98 bomber, is probably the largest fighter ever built. Around 200 were built to patrol areas of Siberia which were not protected by a SAM screen. The Tu-128 was retired in 1992.
128” (TU-28, TU-128) – long-range supersonic missile carrier loitering interceptor-fighter of Air Defense. Designed on the basis of experimental TU-98. First flight - 18 March, 1961. In the middle of the 1960s TU-128C-4 based on TU-128 was added for operation by Air Defense of our country. Total output before the year 1970- about 200 machines in versions of TU-128, TU-128UT (training version). Since the end of the 60s the complex was upgraded (TU-128C-4M) by way of optimization of fleet of aircraft being in operation (TU-128M). The aircraft were in operation up to the second halve of the 80s.
