The Myasishchev M-18 was a Soviet design for a supersonic bomber with a variable-sweep wing. It was drawn up in response to a 1972 Soviet programme for a new multi-mission, supersonic, variable-geometry strategic bomber with a top speed of Mach 2.3, the Soviet answer to the American Rockwell B-1 Lancer. Of the competing designs it was judged the most successful compared with the Tupolev Tu-160 and the Sukhoi T-4, yet the project was dropped in favour of the Tu-160 programme because Tupolev had the most potential to carry the bomber project forward. In 1973 Tupolev was assigned to develop a new aircraft based on the Myasishchev design. The M-18 was never built.
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