The Tupolev TB-3, OKB designation ANT-6, was a monoplane heavy bomber deployed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1930s and used during the early years of...
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The Tupolev TB-1 (development name ANT-4) was a Soviet bomber aircraft, an angular monoplane that served as the backbone of the Soviet bomber force for...
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The Tupolev ANT-16 (also known as the TB-4; Russian: Тяжелый Бомбардировщик – Heavy Bomber) was an experimental heavy bomber aircraft designed and tested...
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Zveno project (redirect from Vakhmistrov Zveno-3)
the aviation engineer Vladimir Vakhmistrov. It consisted of a Tupolev TB-1 or a Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber mothership and two to five fighters. Depending...
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Tupolev TB-6 (internal designation ANT-26; Russian: Туполев ТБ-6/АНТ-26) was a proposal by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1930s for a super-heavy bomber...
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utilized on numerous aircraft, including the Beriev MBR-2, Tupolev TB-3, Tupolev TB-4, Tupolev ANT-20, Petlyakov Pe-8, Kalinin K-7, Polikarpov I-17, and...
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Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Designed as a competitor for the Tupolev TB-3, the TB-5 was intended to be powered by two FED 24-cylinder X engines of...
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G-11 Kolesnikov-Tsibin KC-20 Lisunov Li-2 Polikarpov Po-2 Tupolev ANT-9 Tupolev TB-1 Tupolev TB-3 Vultee PS-43 (licence built Vultee V-11GB) Yakovlev Yak-6...
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Petlyakov Pe-8 (redirect from Tupolev TB-7)
speed and service ceiling of the TB-3. The task was assigned to the Tupolev Design Bureau (OKB) where Andrei Tupolev handed the work to a team led by...
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Tupolev TB-1 and Tupolev TB-3 bombers. In August 1941, these combinations would fly the only combat missions ever undertaken by parasite fighters. TB-3s...
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Myasishchev worked at the Tupolev Design Bureau and took part in constructing airplanes, such as Tupolev TB-1, Tupolev TB-3, and Tupolev ANT-20. As an assistant...
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in turn had been created by modifying the bomber Tupolev TB-3 under the leadership of A.N. Tupolev. The G-2 aircraft, tail number USSR-L3043 (serial...
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the earlier TB-1, the four-engined TB-3, made a landing at the North Pole. As the number of qualified aircraft designers increased, Tupolev set up his...
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress (redirect from Boeing TB-29 Superfortress)
Soviet Air Forces—first flew in 1936. Intended to replace the obsolete Tupolev TB-3, only 93 Pe-8s were built by the end of WWII. During 1944 and 1945, four...
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and Mikhail Gromov, and the long-range bombers such as the Tupolev TB-1 and the Tupolev TB-3. In 1936, Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, issued...
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takeoffs were also achieved on the Tupolev TB-1. and Tupolev TB-3 Heavy Bombers. The official test of the Tupolev TB-1 in 1933 shortened the takeoff by...
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with transporting T-27s by air, suspending one under the fuselage of a Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber. The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) became one of the most...
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aforementioned I-15, I-16 and UT-4, the Soviets also supplied Tupolev TB-3, Tupolev SB, and Ilyushin DB-3 bombers. Over 1,200 aircraft had been sent to China by...
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I-3 Polikarpov I-7 Polikarpov R-5 Tupolev ANT-9 Tupolev ANT-7 Tupolev R-6 Tupolev KR-6 Tupolev MR-6 Tupolev P-6 Tupolev PS-7 Tupolev TB-1 Tupolev TB-3 BT-7...
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Developed in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, it consisted of a Tupolev TB-1 or a Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber mothership and two to five fighters. Depending...
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mock-up of the missile; both tests failed. It was then decided to use a Tupolev TB-3 aircraft as launch platform. The first test was done on May 27, 1938...
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a glider in 1942 and was designed to be towed by a Petlyakov Pe-8 or Tupolev TB-3 bomber and was to be used to provide partisan forces with light armour...
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Martin NBS-1/MB-2 Mitsubishi Ki-20 Mitsubishi Ki-21 Petlyakov Pe-8 Tupolev TB-1 Tupolev TB-3 Vickers Virginia Avro Lancaster Avro Lincoln Boeing B-17 Flying...
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Air Force includes: Lavochkin La-5, Polikarpov I-15 and I-16 fighters, Tupolev TB-3 bombers, Polikarpov R-5 reconnaissance bombers, Polikarpov Po-2, Antonov...
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Aerohydrodynamic Institute under the direction of Andrei Tupolev, where he assisted in the design of the Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber. While at TsAGI, his colleagues...
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academy Zhukovsky ) tasked with the design of a replacement for the Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber. The resulting DB-A was advanced for its day, with stressed...
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List of aircraft (Tu) (section Tupolev)
Tupolev RD Tupolev RDD Tupolev RShR Tupolev Samolyet Yu Tupolev 28-80 Tupolev SB ANT-40 Tupolev T-1 Tupolev TB-1 ANT-4 Tupolev TB-3 ANT-6 Tupolev TB-4...
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into a glider in 1942, intended to be towed by a Petlyakov Pe-8 or a Tupolev TB-3. The tank was lightened for air use by removing its armament, ammunition...
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(front-line bomber) FB: Tupolev Tu-2 G (Г) - Gruzovoi (cargo, usually converted heavy bomber) G-1: Tupolev TB-1 as transport G-2: Tupolev TB-3 as transport GST...
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The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) is a twin-engined Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline bomber aircraft...
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