Tupolev Aircraft

Tupolev ANT-1 1923 First flew on October 20, 1923. ... read more ... First flew on May 26, 1924. ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-2 1924 Tupolev ANT-3 / R-3 1925 read more ... A cantilever low-wing monoplane powered by two 336kW Napier Lion engines, the prototype TB-1 or ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-4 / TB-1 1925 Tupolev ANT-5 / I-4 1927 Designed by Pavel O Sukhoi when a brigade leader of Andrei N Tupolev's AGOS (Aviatsiya, ... read more ... The prototype of the Tupolev ANT-9 high-wing monoplane transport made its first flight in May 1929. ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-9 / PS-9 1929 Tupolev ANT-6 / TB-3 1930 The Tupolev TB-3 all-metal cantilever monoplane was the most advanced four-engined heavy bomber in service ... read more ... Conceived to make use of new high-strength steels obtainable from Germany in the late 'twenties, ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-13 / I-8 1930 Tupolev ANT-10 / R-7 1930 Under the military designation R-7, a single ANT-10 was built as a possible alternative to Polikarpov's ... read more ... The Tupolev ANT-7 prototype was a scaled-down version of the ANT-4. First flown on 11 ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-7 / R-6 1931 Tupolev ANT-14 "Pravda" 1931 The one-off ANT-14 Pravda, which served as flagship of the propaganda squadron, was an enlargement ... read more ... Of unconventional design in employing a tandem fore-and-aft engine arrangement and twin tailbooms embodying recoilless ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-23 (I-12) 1931 Tupolev ANT-8 / MDR-2 1931 Although Tupolev and the TsAGI had been requested to construct a flying boat in 1925, higher ... read more ... The Tupolev AIMT-16 or TB-4 was a super-heavy bomber powered by six 619kW M-34 engines, two ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-16 / TB-4 1933 Tupolev ANT-25 / RD 1933 The first prototype flew on June 22, 1933. On June 18-20, 1937 RD piloted by ... read more ... Designed at the KOSOS (Konstruktorski otdel opytnovo samolyetostroeniya, or Design Department for Experimental Aircraft Construction) ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-21 (MI-3) 1933 Tupolev ANT-31 (I-14) 1933 Possessing the distinction of being the world's first all-metal single-seat cantilever monoplane fighter to be ... read more ... Built entirely for propaganda purposes at the behest of the Union of Soviet Writers and Editors ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-20 "Maxim Gorki" 1934 Tupolev ANT-22 / MK-1 1934 The Tupolev ANT-22 or MK-1 with six 619kW M-34R engines was a long-range bomber reconnaissance ... read more ... The two ANT-40 light bomber prototypes of Andrei N. Tupolev's design bureau were years ahead of their ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-40 / SB-2 / Ar-2 1934 Tupolev ANT-21bis (MI-3D) 1934 Retaining the wings, engines and undercarriage of the ANT-21, the ANT-21bis alias MI-3D (the suffix ... read more ... Naval, long-range, reconnaissance, heavy bomber, flying boat with three M-34RN engines. 15 April 1934 crashed at take-off ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-27 / MDR-4, MTB-1 1934 Tupolev ANT-37 / DB-2 1935 Developed from the uncompleted Tupolev ANT-36 (DB-1), a sihgle-engined long-range bomber based on the ANT-25, ... read more ... A progressive development of the basic ANT-21bis design, the ANT-29 was a DIP (Dvukhmotorny istrebitel ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-29 DIP 1935 Tupolev ANT-46 (DI-8) 1935 Ordered in December 1934 as a single prototype under the designation DI-8, the ANT-46 was ... read more ... The ANT-36 was a redesigned ANT-25, and the twenty aircraft built for the Soviet Air ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-36 / DB-1 1935 Tupolev ANT-35 / PS-35 1936 The Tupolev ANT-35 all-metal light passenger transport prototype was based on the SB-2 bomber, and ... read more ... In December 1934, Tupolev was asked to design a naval heavy bomber (Morksoi Torpedonosets Bombardirovshik = naval ... read more ... Tupolev ANT-44 / MTB-2 1937 Tupolev Tu-2 1940 The origin of the Tupolev Tu-2 lay in the ANT-58, ANT-59 and ANT-60 light bomber prototypes that ... read more ... Another Tu-2 variant was the Tu-10. This was a four-crew aircraft fitted with inline Mikulin AM-39FNVs of ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-10 1945 Tupolev ANT-63P (Tu-1) 1946 An attempt to produce a radar-equipped three-seat long-range night and all-weather fighter also suited for ... read more ... One-off passenger transport developed in parallel with Tu-4; flown on 27 November 1946; new nose ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-70 1946 Tupolev Tu-14 (Tu-81) 1947 The work done on the Tu-72, -73, -74, -78 and -79 projects were all stages in ... read more ... Based on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress (examples of which had made emergency landings in Russia ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-4 1947 Tupolev Tu-73 1947 The Tu-72 was developed as a naval bomber in 1946/47. It was to be a mid-winged, ... read more ... The Tu-12 was the last derivative of the Tu-2, but this was not just another variant ... read more ... Tupolev 77 / Tu-12 1947 Tupolev Tu-80 1949 Under the project number 64 Tupolev, with Dmitri Markov as chief designer, had begun to work ... read more ... Continuing his development of jet bombers, the next Tupolev aircraft was the light twin-engined Tu-82, which was ... read more ... Tupolev 82 / Tu-22 1949 Tupolev Tu-75 1950 Next in the extended B-29/Tu-4 family was a military transport, basically a version of the Tu-70. ... read more ... Prototype flown under OKB designation Tu-88 27 April 1952 was overweight; Andrei Tupolev delayed production until ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-16 1951 Tupolev Tu-85 1951 At the end of the 1940s, Vladimir Dobrynin's engine design bureau had developed a new air-cooled, ... read more ... Descended indirectly from the American Boeing B-29 via the Tupolev Tu-4, refined read more ... Tupolev Tu-95 1952 Tupolev Tu-91 1954 At the end of the 1940s, the Soviet government took a decision to expand the Voenno ... read more ... With an urgent Aeroflot need in the early 1950s for a modern airliner of greater ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-104 1955 Tupolev Tu-98 1956 Tupolev's progress in the development of aircraft design rarely came about by huge technical leaps; rather it ... read more ... The first prototype Tu-116 based on Tu-20 bomber and renamed later Tu-114D flew in ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-114 1957 Tupolev Tu-110 1957 In order to meet Aeroflot's requirement for a 100-seat jetliner, Dmitri Markov installed four 5,000shp Lyulka AL-7P ... read more ... Development of the Tupolev Tu-22 'Blinder' supersonic bomber/ maritime patrol aircraft began in 1955, under the ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-22 1958 Tupolev Tu-116 1958 The Soviet government had planned for several years that the General Secretary of the Communist Party and ... read more ... Aeroflot's requirement for a short/ medium-range airliner to replace the llyushin IL-14 led to ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-124 1960 Tupolev Tu-28 / Tu-128 1961 The largest and heaviest interceptor fighter ever to have achieved service status, the Tu-128 was ... read more ... Known originally as the Tu-124A, this aircraft is a rear-engined twin-turbofan development of the Tu-124. ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-134 1962 Tupolev Tu-126 1962 A military derivation of the Tu-114 has the designation Tu-126 and NATO reporting name ... read more ... The Tupolev Tu-144 began design in the early 1960s, the prototype being flown on 31 ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-144 1968 Tupolev Tu-154 1968 The Tu-154, announced Spring 1966, was intended to replace the Tu-104, IL-18 and An-10 on ... read more ... In the mid-1960s, the Soviet Navy developed a requirement for a long-range anti-submarine and maritime patrol aircraft ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-142 1968 Tupolev Tu-22M 1977 NATO revealed existence of a Soviet variable geometry bomber programme in 1969; development had begun ... read more ... The strategic bomber with variable geometry wings similar to B-1B. The first prototype "70" flew ... read more ... Tupolev Tu-160 1981 Tupolev Tu-204 1989 Medium-range passenger aircraft for 214 seats, designed as a replacement for the Tu-154. ... read more ... The first prototype flew on February 8, 1999. read more ... Tupolev Tu-334 1999