Kraków 2009-03-09
Su-22 M 4 K nb 3305.
"Black Rose" in Krakow.
A new exhibit at the Polish Aviation Museum in Czyżyny.
At the beginning of 2009, another exhibit arrived at the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow. This time it is a Su-22 supersonic strike aircraft, specifically Su-22 M 4 K No. 30305 nb 3305.
The plane belonged to the second batch delivered to Poland from CCCP. This delivery took place in 1985, and the aircraft was delivered in boxes (containers) to the airport in Powidz. There, Soviet technicians assembled the machine and made a test flight. After the delivery and acceptance inspection and the control flight, the aircraft was received by the Polish side. The machine went to the state of the 7th Bomb-Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment in Powidz, which after many years (in August 1999) was transformed into the 7th Tactical Aviation Squadron, with a fighter-bomber profile. The machine made its last practice flights in 2004.
The tail of the aircraft is characteristically painted. Rudder is tricolor; yellow-green-red with black rose. Together with the chessboard, it is the hallmark of NATO.
This plane is not the only one of its kind in Czyżyny. The first was Su-22 M 4 K No. 23005 nb 3005 delivered to Czyżyny in 2007. and Su-22 UM 3 K nb 304. However, the current copy has a rich set of armament -
One by one from the left wing;
SPPU 22-01 pod with a two-barrel movable 23 mm cannon with a supply of 260 rounds. The gun can deflect from 0 degrees to 30 degrees. The drawing in the rear of the fuselage shows how the ammunition belt is arranged in the container.
To defend the C.P.R. class p-p R-60.
57 mm S-5 rounds, fired from the UB-32 pod. The most popular cache from e.g. used in the Polish Army.
ZK-300 Kisajno Cassette Hopper of Polish construction, manufactured in Dezamet in Nowa Dęba. Length 3.40 m, diameter 450 mm, weight 465 kg, including 252 kg 315 LBOk-1 ball bombs.
The second storage tank SPPU 22-01.
Dispenser from e.g. B-8 M 1 with 20 80mm S-8 rounds.
Free node for CCP.
Beam for hanging 6 pieces of bombs.
By way of clarification. The aircraft may have a maximum of 10 armament suspension nodes. Then, under the fuselage, four nodes are installed in a system of two pairs, one behind the other.
The fixed armament consists of two cannons placed in the wing roots of the NR-30, cal. 30 mm, designed by A. Nudelman and A. Richter, with a supply of 160 rounds of ammunition each. Weight 66 kg, rate of fire 900 rounds/min., bullet weight 410 g, and muzzle velocity 780 m/s.
The armament is supplemented by a self-defense system, the element of which are four packages of thermal trap ejectors (flares) and strips of foil placed on the upper part of the fuselage.
All photos Karol Placha Hetman taken on March 9, 2009.
Written by Karol Placha Hetman