Tupolev TB-1
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The Tupolev TB-1 was a Soviet bomber aircraft, an angular monoplane that served as the backbone of the Soviet bomber force for many years, and was the first large all-metal aircraft built in the Sovie
ANT-4 at the Ulyanovsk Aircraft Museum
Strana Sovyetov during the flight from Moscow to New York, 1929
Tupolev TB-3
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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 World War II. It was one of the world's first can
Tupolev TB-1
…I-4 fighters over the aircraft's wings as parasite aircraft. The TB-1 was replaced as a heavy bomber by the similar, but much larger, four-engined Tupolev TB-3, with many aircraft being converted to civil freighters (designated G-1) for use by Aeroflot and Aviaarktika, Aeroflot's polar division. One Avia Arktika…
TB-3 in Zveno configuration
TB-3 after emergency landing during the Winter War in March 1940
Soviet paratroopers boarding TB-3 transport
TB-3 carrying a T-27 tankette