Beriev Be-10 - Variants

Variants

Izdeliye M

The prototype Be-10, Bort no. 10 Red completed in 1955 and flown on 20 June 1956 from Gelendzhik on the Black Sea. One built.

Be-10

The standard production version built for the AV-MF, 27 built from 1958 to 1961.

Be-10N

Proposed cruise missile carrier to be part of the K-12B airborne strike system, carrying two K-12BS cruise missiles on pylons under the wings. Although reaching mock-up stages and being granted approval from the Gosudarstvenny Komitet Po Aviatsionny Tekhnike ("state committee on aircraft technology") Scientific & Technical Council, no further action was authorised.

Be-10S

A proposed anti submarine warfare seaplane project to have been armed with the SK-1 Skal'p ("Scalp") nuclear depth charge. No hardware was built.

Be-10U

A proposed Target designator seaplane project to have been fitted with the Uspekh radar system, to pass targetting information to ship or shore based missile or artillery batteries. Discontinued by August 1960.

Be-10 Trainer

A proposed trainer version with a duplicate set of controls in a cockpit in the extreme nose. Conversions were to have taken place, but there is no evidence that any were completed.

M-10

A single Be-10, (c/n 0600505), Bort No. 40 Yellow, modified to attempt record breaking flights in 1961. The tail turret was removed and faired over, an additional pitot tube was fitted to the fin, and guns removed. Twelve world records were broken, some of which still stand.