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The Last Breath of Piston-Engine Aviation. The Tu-80—The Final Chapter in the History of Soviet Piston-Engine Bombers
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In the postwar years, the Soviet aviation industry was undergoing a rapid transition from piston engines to jet propulsion. At this historic turning point, ...

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Soviet strategic bombers, of which there were almost none. The Pe-8—the rarest strategic bombers of World War II
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When Soviet pilots dropped bombs on Berlin for the first time in August 1941, aircraft appeared in the skies over the capital of the Third Reich that the ...

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The crater is forty meters in diameter. What was the Soviet Air Force’s most powerful World War II aerial bomb, and what aircraft could carry it?
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On August 5, 1943, the Red Army liberated Oryol. That same day, Moscow fired the first salute of the war. And on the outskirts of the city, near the train ...

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Why Bratukhin's "Omega" helicopter never ushered in the era of Soviet rotorcraft
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Stories about Bratukhin’s helicopters have already appeared on our website, and this particular helicopter was even mentioned in one of our reviews. But there ...

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Bratukhin's Forgotten Revolutionary Helicopter, the B-11: Why Did It Remain in the Hangar and Never Go into Mass Production?
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We've already posted an article about this car on our website. However, that was quite a while ago—back in 2021—so I think a more recent piece, with much more ...

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The First Soviet Aircraft Cannon, the ShVAK: Its Advantages and Disadvantages
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Epigraph: Nothing is more permanent than the temporary. Nock, Albert J., American public figure I came across some interesting articles on the Zen ...

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