- First flight1947
- Introduction1949
- StatusRetired
- Number built847
Specifications
01
Crew & dimensions
- Crew
- 11
- Length
- 30.18 m
- Wingspan
- 43.05 m
- Height
- 8.46 m
02
Performance
- Maximum speed
- 558 km/h
- Range
- 5,400 km
- Service ceiling
- 11,200 m
03
Powerplant
- Powerplant
- 4 × Shvetsov ASh-73TK 18-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engines (1,790 kW)
04
Armament
- Armament
- Guns: 10 × 23 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 aircraft cannon, two cannon in each of the four turrets and two cannon in the tail barbette; Bombs: 6 × 1000 kg bombs or 1 x RDS-1, RDS-3 or RDS-5 nuclear fission bomb (Tu-4A only); Missiles: 2 × KS-1 Komet standoff missiles (Tu-4K only; these anti-ship missiles resembled a scaled-down MiG-15)