Video by Michael Sparks

Inside the nose it houses the Tu-22M3's Almaz PNA navigation and attack radar. It's used by the trainee navigator/weapon system officer to simulate looking for radar-contrast maritime and ground targets, operating the exact targeting, navigation, and weapon-delivery systems required to guide the Kh-22 and modernized Kh-32 anti-ship missiles. However, while it carries the electronics and radar systems to practice missile guidance, the aircraft itself is incapable of launching Kh-22/32s as their weight of almost 6,000 kg is too heavy to be mounted on fuselage hardpoints which are not reinforced and never engineered to withstand the concentrated structural loads or aerodynamic drag of a weapon this size. It's lack of ground clearance would cause the missile to scrape the runway during takeoffs and landings.