As the Germans got closer to Russia, the desperate Soviet Air Force top officials finally admitted they needed help from the nation's most famous aircraft designer: Andrei Tupolev.
As with many Russian engineers and scientists of the era, the problem was that Tupolev was in prison for crimes against the Red State.
Designed from a prison cell, the twin-engine dive bomber was a machine unlike any other, with many combinations of armament and weaponry depending on the mission.
Intrinsically built as a high-speed daylight and frontline bomber, the Tu-2 was so versatile that it contributed to various missions, including air-to-air combat, interception, ground attack, close-air support, and ISR or intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
Introduced right in the middle of World War 2, the Tu-2 quickly became one of the most successful warplanes of the era, an essential part of the Red Army's fight against the once invincible Third Reich, and ultimately, a forgotten icon of the Soviet Air Force…
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11 сен 2024
