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Tupolev ANT-3 / R-3 1925 |
The prototype flew for the first time in August 1925. An unequal-span biplane, intended for reconnaissance duties, it was of ... read more ... |
A cantilever low-wing monoplane powered by two 336kW Napier Lion engines, the prototype TB-1 or Tupolev ANT-4 made its maiden ... read more ... |
Tupolev ANT-4 / TB-1 1925 |
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Tupolev ANT-5 / I-4 1927 |
Designed by Pavel O Sukhoi when a brigade leader of Andrei N Tupolev's AGOS (Aviatsiya, Gidroaviatsiya i Opytnoye Stroityelstvo - ... read more ... |
The prototype of the Tupolev ANT-9
high-wing monoplane transport made its first flight in May 1929. Of all-metal construction with corrugated ... read more ... |
Tupolev ANT-9 / PS-9 1929 |
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Tupolev ANT-6 / TB-3 1930 |
The Tupolev TB-3 all-metal cantilever monoplane was the most advanced four-engined heavy bomber in service in the world in the ... read more ... |
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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 R-5,
which first flew in 1928 ... read more ... |
Of unconventional design in employing a tandem fore-and-aft engine arrangement and twin tailbooms embodying recoilless gun tubes as integral, but ... read more ... |
Tupolev ANT-23 (I-12) 1931 |
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Designed at the KOSOS (Konstruktorski otdel opytnovo samolyetostroeniya, or Design Department for Experimental Aircraft Construction) within TsAGI by a brigade ... read more ... |
Tupolev ANT-21 (MI-3) 1933 |
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Tupolev ANT-31 (I-14) 1933 |
Possessing the distinction of being the world's first all-metal single-seat cantilever monoplane fighter to be graced with a retractable main ... read more ... |
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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 flying-boat, its twin-hull design clearly ... read more ... |
Naval, long-range, reconnaissance, heavy bomber,
flying boat with three M-34RN engines. 15 April
1934 crashed at take-off during factory tests.
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The ANT-27bis was ... read more ... |
Tupolev ANT-27 / MDR-4, MTB-1 1934 |
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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, the Tupolev ANT-37
(DB-2) long-range bomber ... read more ... |
A progressive development of the basic ANT-21bis design, the ANT-29 was a DIP (Dvukhmotorny istrebitel pushechny, or twin-engined cannon fighter) ... read more ... |
Tupolev ANT-29 DIP 1935 |
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Tupolev ANT-46 (DI-8) 1935 |
Ordered in December 1934 as a single prototype under the designation DI-8, the ANT-46 was a two-seat fighter (Dvukhmestny istrebitel) ... read more ... |
In December 1934, Tupolev was asked to design a
naval heavy bomber (Morksoi Torpedonosets Bombardirovshik
= naval torpedo bomber = MTB). With
his ... read more ... |
Tupolev ANT-44 / MTB-2 1937 |
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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 came from the
design bureau of ... read more ... |
Another Tu-2 variant was the Tu-10. This was a four-crew
aircraft fitted with inline Mikulin AM-39FNVs
of 1850hp. Its first flight took ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-10 1945 |
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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 the escort mission, the ANT-63P, ... read more ... |
One-off passenger transport developed in parallel with Tu-4; flown on 27 November 1946; new nose with conventional cockpit/flight deck instead ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-70 1946 |
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Based on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress (examples of which had made emergency landings in Russia during 1944 in the course ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-4 1947 |
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Tupolev Tu-73 1947 |
The Tu-72 was developed as a naval bomber in
1946/47. It was to be a mid-winged, twin-engined
aircraft without sweep, and the ... read more ... |
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Tupolev Tu-80 1949 |
Under the project number 64 Tupolev, with Dmitri
Markov as chief designer, had begun to work on a
long-range strategic bomber in ... read more ... |
Continuing his development of jet bombers, the next
Tupolev aircraft was the light twin-engined Tu-82,
which was the first Soviet bomber to ... read more ... |
Tupolev 82 / Tu-22 1949 |
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Tupolev Tu-75 1950 |
Next in the extended B-29/Tu-4 family was a military
transport, basically a version of the Tu-70. Its design
was very similar to ... read more ... |
Prototype flown under OKB designation Tu-88 27 April 1952 was overweight; Andrei Tupolev
delayed production until second prototype flew in 1953 ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-16 1951 |
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Tupolev Tu-85 1951 |
At the end of the 1940s, Vladimir Dobrynin's engine
design bureau had developed a new air-cooled, twenty-four-
cylinder in-line piston engine, the ... read more ... |
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Tupolev Tu-91 1954 |
At the end of the 1940s, the Soviet government took a
decision to expand the Voenno Morskoi Plot (VMF,
the Navy). It ... read more ... |
With an urgent Aeroflot need in the early 1950s for a modern airliner of greater capacity, range and speed than ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-104 1955 |
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Tupolev Tu-98 1956 |
Tupolev's progress in the development of aircraft
design rarely came about by huge technical leaps;
rather it was a progressive, but time-consuming, ... read more ... |
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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 engines in place of the ... read more ... |
Development of the Tupolev Tu-22
'Blinder' supersonic bomber/ maritime patrol aircraft began in 1955, under the Tupolev bureau designations Aircraft Yu ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-22 1958 |
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Tupolev Tu-116 1958 |
The Soviet government had planned for several years
that the General Secretary of the Communist Party
and Premier of the Soviet Union, ... read more ... |
Known originally as the Tu-124A, this aircraft is a rear-engined twin-turbofan development of the Tu-124. It
had completed more than 100 ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-134 1962 |
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The Tupolev Tu-144 began design in the early 1960s, the prototype being flown on 31 December 1968. Of like configuration, ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-144 1968 |
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Tupolev Tu-154 1968 |
The Tu-154, announced Spring 1966, was intended to replace the Tu-104, IL-18 and An-10 on medium/long
stage lengths of up to ... read more ... |
In the mid-1960s, the Soviet Navy developed a requirement
for a long-range anti-submarine and maritime
patrol aircraft to supplement the IL-38 medium-range
aircraft. ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-142 1968 |
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Tupolev Tu-22M 1977 |
NATO revealed existence of a Soviet variable geometry bomber programme in 1969; development had begun 1962, to meet Soviet Air ... read more ... |
The strategic bomber with variable geometry wings similar to B-1B.
The first prototype "70" flew in 1981. Entered service in ... read more ... |
Tupolev Tu-160 1981 |
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