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Tupolev Tu-104LL side view

Tupolev Tu-104LL

CCCP-42454, the Tupolev Tu-104LL avionics testbed operated by NPO Vzlyot, shown here in its LL-2 configuration for testing the Zaslon weapons control system

Tupolev Tu-104A side view

Tupolev Tu-104A

Tupolev Tu-104A «001», a VIP aircraft used by the top Soviet military leaders (Marshal Rodion Ya. Malinovskiy)

Tupolev Tu-22PD side view

Tupolev Tu-22PD

Tupolev Tu-22PD “41 Red”, 121st Guards Sevastopol Red Banner Heavy Bomber Regiment, Machulischi (Belarus), July 1994. The aircraft looked this way immediately before being ferried to Engels AFB for disposal

Tupolev Tu-22PD side view

Tupolev Tu-22PD

Tupolev Tu-22PD «41 Red», 121st Guards Sevastopol Red Banner Heavy Bomber Regiment, Machulischi (Belarus), July 1994. The aircraft looked this way immediately before being ferried to Engels AFB for disposal

Tupolev Tu-16R artwork

Tupolev Tu-16R

In a display of first-rate airmanship on both sides, a quasi-Egyptian Tupolev Tu-16R recce aircraft flown by a Soviet crew and flying at ultra-low level over the Med is intercepted by an RAF English Electric Lightning F.3 off the coast of Cyprus in 1970. The Lightning has taken up a position under the Tu-16’s wing

Polikarpov R-5 artwork

Polikarpov R-5

A camouflaged Polikarpov R-5 light transport aircraft, 1943


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