EARLY SOVIET JET BOMBERS – The 1940s and Early 1950s
Häftad bok. Midland Publishing. 2004. 128 sidor.
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As World War II drew to a close, the Soviet government was well aware that today's allies would soon be tomorrow's adversaries. This meant new bombers had to be developed for dealing strikes at the potential adversaries' military and political centers.
• Having gained access to German jet aircraft technology and the men behind it in 1945, the Soviet Union put them to good use when developing its own jet bombers.The first jet bomber to fly in the USSR was the Junkers EF131. Built in 1946, it was based on the unconventional forward-swept wing Ju 287 V2, which had been captured in incomplete form.
• This was followed by the EF140 (a similar FSW design differing in powerplant) and the equally unusual T-tailed, bicycle-gear 'aircraft 150' developed by Brunolf Baade which was ultimately rejected in favor of the Tupolev Tu-16.
• The first wholly indigenous Soviet jet bomber came from the Ilyushin design bureau; it was the four-engined IL-22 of 1947. Other experimental Ilyushin bombers - the IL-30, IL-46 and IL-54 which lost out to competing designs - are described in this book, as are the Tupolev 'aircraft 77', 'aircraft 82' and the 'aircraft 72/73/78' series which culminated in the Tu-14 twinjet bomber built on a small scale, mainly for the Soviet Navy.
"Really thorough text describing apparently every Soviet jet bomber designed from about 1946 - 1953, whether it entered production or not. It even includes designs for which no prototypes were constructed. It includes a chapter relating how the German aeronautical engineers captured by the Russians were used in designing the first generation of Soviet jet bombers (not as much as you might think) and also how captured German bomber projects were evaluated and used in the initial Soviet bomber designs. There are many photos of every design."
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