Showing posts with label Tupolev SB 2M-100. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tupolev SB 2M-100. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Tupolev SB in Soviet Service. Part Seven.

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  The SB continued to serve during World War 2, specially during the siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Moscow, as we've already state...
Tuesday, 2 January 2024

Tupolev SB in Soviet Service. Part Four.

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  The Tupolev PS-41 was a civilian version of the SB 2M-103. It was developed by Aeroflot in 1939 and by December 1940 forty-nine machines w...
Thursday, 13 July 2023

Tupolev SB in Soviet Service. Part Two.

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  The first combat usage of the Tupolev SB under VVS's (Soviet Air Force) Red Star was in the Battle of Lake Khasan. This battle was par...
Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Tupolev SB in Soviet service. Part one.

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  The Tupolev SB (development TsAGI-40), was a Soviet high-speed bomber, twin-engined, three-seat monoplane bomber which flew for the first ...
Thursday, 29 June 2023

Tupolev SB in Spain. Part Two.

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  When the German Messerschmitt Bf.109B fighter made its appearance over Spain, with its experienced pilots, the losses of the SBs started t...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Tupolev SB in Spain. Part one.

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  In the early days of the Spanish Civil War, the Soviet freighter ship Komsomol shipped the first 31 Tupolev SB bombers from Odessa to the ...
Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Tupolev SB in Finnish service. Part one.

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  During the Winter War, which comprised from 30th November 1939 to 13th March 1940, the Finnish captured eight salvageable SB 2M-100A. Thos...
Thursday, 8 June 2023

Tupolev SB in service with China

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  On 7th July 1937 Japan invaded China sparkling the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Chinese Air Force (CAF) had, at that time just 284 aircra...