prototypes and 130 production airframes built. Be-12EKO Projected ecological reconnaissance version. Not built. Be-12I Projected scientific research version designed in 1991. Not built. Be-12LL Conversion for testing the 3M-80 'Moskit' anti-shipping missile. Nose radar replaced with missile seeker head. One aircraft converted in 1980. Be-12N ASW version fitted with new sensors, avionics, MAD sensor and Nartsiss search/attack system. 27 aircraft converted. Be-12Nkh Utility transport, experimental passenger transport version. Military equipment removed, additional windows fitted. 2 built, both converted from Be-12. Be-12P Firefighting version. One 4,500 L tank and two 750 L tanks installed. Four aircraft converted in 1992. Be-12P-200 Technology demonstrator for the Beriev Be-200. Fire-fighting configuration. One aircraft converted. Be-12PS Maritime Search and rescue version. Life rafts and survival equipment carried. 6 crew. 10 built new, 4 converted from Be-12. Be-12SK One aircraft converted in 1961 for use in SK-1 nuclear depth charge tests. Be-14 All weather, day/night SAR version. Additional SAR and medical equipment. 6 crew. AI-20D engines. One built. M-12 Stripped-down Be-12 used for record-setting flights. 2 Crew. Later returned to standard configuration. Operators Current operators Russian Naval Aviation – received ex-Soviet Union aircraft. Nine Aircraft still in operation with the Black Sea Fleet. Ukrainian Naval Aviation – received ex-Soviet aircraft, two still in operation. Former Operators Azerbaijani Air Forces – inherited three aircraft from the Soviet Union. They were decommissioned around 2000, and scrapped in 2018. Egyptian Air Force – operated two or three Be-12s circa 1970, crewed by Soviet personnel, to maintain surveillance on the United States Navy's 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. Soviet Naval Aviation – passed its aircraft to successor countries: Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. Syrian Air Force Vietnam People's Air Force – four aircraft exported in 1981. Specifications (Be-12) See also References Notes Bibliography Yefim Gordon, Andrey Sal'nikov and Aleksandr Zablotskiy (2006) Beriev's Jet Flying Boats. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing. Be-0012 1960s Soviet patrol aircraft Flying boats Gull-wing aircraft High-wing aircraft Amphibious aircraft Twin-turboprop tractor aircraft Aerial firefighting aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1960 Twin-tail aircraft