Tupolev Tu-4
The First Soviet Strategic Bomber
After World War II, the Soviet Union and the USA, who had been allies in the war, started moving towards political and military confrontation. The Soviet Union urgently needed a strategic bomber capable of striking at the USA. Thus, the windfall of three battle-damaged B-29s forced to land in Soviet territory was most welcome. The Soviet Union kept them; a huge reverse-engineering effort ensued, resulting in a Soviet copy of the Superfortress (the Tu-4) and a major technology boost to the Soviet aircraft and avionics industries. From then on, the Soviet Superfortress evolved independently, some of the Tu-4 versions having no direct U.S. equiv…
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Weitere Autoren: Komissarov, Dmitriy / Rigmant, Vladimir
- ISBN: 978-0-7643-4797-9
- EAN: 9780764347979
- Produktnummer: 19350437
- Verlag: Schiffer Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H27.9 cm x B21.5 cm 1'535 g
- Abbildungen: 520 colour & b/w photos
- Gewicht: 1535
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Yefim Gordon is an aviation journalist and photographer who has been researching Soviet/Russian aviation history for more than forty years. He has authored and coauthored more than 120 books on the subject and published hundreds of features and photographs in Russian and foreign aviation magazines. Sergey Komissarov is editor-in-chief of Kryl’ya Rodiny (Wings of the Motherland) magazine and a researcher of aviation history. He is the author/coauthor of more than twenty books and numerous magazine features on Soviet/Russian aviation. Dmitriy Komissarov is a translator and journalist whose work has been associated with aviation since 1993. He has translated or authored/coauthored more than seventy books on Soviet/Russian aircraft and written numerous features for Russian and foreign aviation magazines.Dmitriy Komissarov is a translator and journalist whose work has been associated with aviation since 1993. He has translated or authored/co-authored more than seventy books on Soviet/Russian aircraft and written numerous features for Russian and foreign aviation magazines.Vladimir Rigmant started working in aviation engineering in 1963 and has been working for the Tupolev aircraft design bureau since 1986. He is the director of the Tupolev Joint-Stock Co. museum. He has authored several hundred magazine features on aviation and is also the author/co-author of more than twenty books on Soviet/Russian aircraft.
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