Alekseyev I-211/DB-83

Today we continue with the Alekseyevs' fighters and now it's the time for a never built project of them.

The Alekseyev I-211/DB-83 was a never-built project in order to create an escort fighter using the fuselage of the I-211.

Featuring the same amount of fuel and the much more economical piston engines, which by the mid-40s they had been perfected to a point that they were very reliable, it was obvious that the Soviet Air Force needed an escort fighter in order to protect their bombers, mainly the Tupolev Tu-4 (which was a copy of the American B-29 Superfortress).

Alekseyev proposed to attach two 1850hp Shvetsov radial engines to the wings (the same type of engine that the Lavochkin La-9 had) , instead of the jet engines.

Anyway, the project never went beyond the paper as the escort role was already performed by the Lavochkin La-9/La-11 or even some early reliable jet fighters like the MiG-9.

Sources:
1. http://survincity.com/2012/05/transformer-alexeev-i-211-215-216-okb-21-fighter/