Blinder on the field - not directly scrapyard, but most of them already without usable nuclear warfare parts in preparations for START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). 75 RED in the background, both scrapped
During the late 1980s, a number of Tu-22KDs where rebuilt with an ECM system replacing the tail gun. This comprised the SPS-151, SPS-152 or SPS-153 system in a streamlined fairing.
wearing different Badges, from left: Guard, Excellent aircraft/maintenance and the Russian flag.
The two small domes behind the cockpit are for the BTs63 astro-sextants, used for long-range navigation.
The Tu-22U was the least evolutionary of the entire Tu-22 family. Most of them where based at Dyagilevo near Ryazan, the main training base for Long-Range Aviation. The 43rd training centre (43 TsBP i PLS) was located there.
By the mid-1980's, the Soviet Air Force had recognised the inadequacy of the tail gun and began with refitting it by an ECM-system instead. This Tu-22KD is showing its SPS-151 type ECM Tail, maybe a SPS-100 Reseda System active jammer unit.