PZL TS-16 Grot

The TS-16 Grot ("Arrowhead") was a supersonic striker /military jet trainer and ground attack plane in another versions designed in Poland by Tadeusz Sołtyk-designer of earlier TS-8 Bies and TS-11 Iskra- the first in 100% polish jet (without any foregein support from East- what it was received very cold on Kremlin in USSR; or West-what is obvious,because Poland was under Soviet prottection) . The project was started in 1958 and cancelled in 1964 for unknown reasons before production could start, although a prototype designated TS-16RD was built. The plane used Soviet RD-9B engines from the MIG-19 although an indigenous engine called the SO-2 was also in development. The production version was to have two engines, although the TS-16RD prototype built had only one.

Graphics

* http://www.powiat.mielec.pl/poser/samoloty/ts/ts16.jpg
* http://g.o2.pl/file_cms/2006/11/10/183951.jpg
* http://awiacja.republika.pl/ts.htm#TS-16

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Variants

*TS-16A single seat attack version
*TS-16B two-seat trainer
*TS-16RD early prototype

pecifications

*Length: 14.3 m
*Wingspan: 7 m
*Height: 4.2 m
*Wing area: 19.2 m²
*Empty weight: 3190 kg
*Total weight: 4950 kg
*Max speed: 1460 km/h
*Ceiling: 14,000 m
*Range: 2200 km
*Armament: two 23 mm cannons (one on trainer version), unguided bombs and rockets on underwing pylons

imilar aircraft

*SEPECAT Jaguar
*J-22 Orao
*Mitsubishi F-1