The Polikarpov I-3 (Russian: Поликарпов И-3) was a Soviet fighter designed during the late 1920s. It entered service in 1929, but was retired in 1935...
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The Polikarpov I-15 (Russian: И-15) was a Soviet biplane fighter aircraft of the 1930s. Nicknamed Chaika (Russian: Чайка, "Seagull") because of its gulled...
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The Polikarpov I-16 (Russian: Поликарпов И-16) is a Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first...
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The Polikarpov I-153 Chaika (Russian Чайка, "Seagull") is a late 1930s Soviet sesquiplane fighter. Developed from the I-15 with a retractable undercarriage...
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The Polikarpov I-180 (Russian: И-180) was a 1938 Soviet fighter prototype. It was the last attempt to extract performance from the basic Polikarpov I-16...
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The Polikarpov I-185 was a Soviet fighter aircraft designed in 1940. It was flown with three engines but all of them were either insufficiently developed...
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The Polikarpov I-6 was a Soviet biplane fighter prototype of the late 1920s. It was designed with traditional wooden construction in comparison with the...
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The Polikarpov I-5 was a single-seat biplane which became the primary Soviet fighter between its introduction in 1931 through 1936, after which it became...
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Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. Dux Factory was acquired by the USSR and...
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The Polikarpov I-17 was a Soviet single-seat fighter prototype designed and built by a team headed by Nikolai Polikarpov at the Central Design Bureau (TsKB)...
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The Polikarpov Po-2 (also U-2 before 1944, for its initial uchebnyy, 'training', role as a flight instruction aircraft) was an all-weather multirole Soviet...
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The Polikarpov I-1 was the first indigenous Soviet monoplane fighter. It had to be redesigned after the crash of the first prototype, and was eventually...
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Zveno project (redirect from Vakhmistrov Zveno-3)
could refuel from the bomber. The definitive Zveno-SPB using a TB-3 and two Polikarpov I-16s, each armed with two 250 kg (550 lb) bombs, was used operationally...
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for service. The PV-1 armed the Polikarpov I-3 and Tupolev I-4 fighters and the Tupolev TB-1 bomber. The Polikarpov I-5 fighter was first armed with a...
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Полика́рпов; 9 June [O.S. 28 May] 1892 – 30 July 1944) was a Soviet aeronautical engineer...
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model. Polikarpov I-1 35 - n/a not used Polikarpov I-3 389 1929–1935 n/a Polikarpov I-5 803 1931–1942 n/a Polikarpov I-6 2 - n/a prototype for I-5 Polikarpov...
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a power of 650 hp (480 kW). Beriev MBR-2 Laville PS-89 Polikarpov I-3 Polikarpov I-7 Polikarpov R-5 Tupolev ANT-9 Tupolev ANT-7 Tupolev R-6 Tupolev KR-6...
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accelerating. As the Polikarpov I-3 was still in development, the decision was made to continue with production. The first two production I-2bis were assigned...
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during taxi run, did not achieve sustained flight. Additional 50 Dornier D.I aircraft ~50% complete when production halted due to armistice "Military Aircraft...
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Polikarpov I-5 fighter Polikarpov I-15 fighter Polikarpov I-153 fighter Polikarpov I-16 fighter Polikarpov P-2 trainer Polikarpov Po-2 trainer Polikarpov R-5...
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guards of the Stalin (now Donetsk) region of Ukraine, an aircraft "Polikarpov I-3" was built with the inscription on board: "SHOOT VOKhR STALINSHCHYNA"...
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The Polikarpov TIS was a heavily armed Soviet heavy fighter designed during the early 1940s. Competing contemporaneous designs in the USSR included the...
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The Polikarpov R-5 (Russian: Р-5) was a Soviet reconnaissance bomber aircraft of the 1930s. It was the standard light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1 (redirect from Mikoyan-Gurevich I-200)
designated I-200, was designed in the Polikarpov construction bureau. Work started in June 1939, under the direction of Nikolai Polikarpov and his assistant...
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Peter the Great (redirect from Peter I The Great)
fifteen years. In 1701 he appointed Fedor Polikarpov-Orlov as head of the Moscow Print Yard. In 1707, Tsar Peter I bought a fully equipped printing house...
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accustomed to the lower-performance and docile Polikarpov I-152 and I-153 biplanes and the Polikarpov I-16 monoplane. It remained tricky and demanding...
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bomber at night with his Polikarpov I-16, but was shot down and killed in late October while flying a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3. Talalikhin claimed three...
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List of aircraft (Pi–Pz) (section Polikarpov)
Polikarpov ED-1 Polikarpov I-1 Polikarpov I-3 Polikarpov I-5 Polikarpov I-6 Polikarpov I-7 Polikarpov I-11 Polikarpov I-13 Polikarpov I-15 Polikarpov...
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February 21 – Polikarpov I-3 February 24 – Handley Page Hare March 5 - Beardmore Inflexible Curtiss XP-3A, prototype of the Curtiss P-3 Hawk Mitsubishi...
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