Badgers, Blinders, Bears and other Soviet Bombers

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Badgers, Blinders, Bears and other Soviet Bombers

#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed May 27, 2020 3:24 am

I was reading one of those small aviation digressions that make the "Controversial Topics" threads here so much more interesting. The digression related to how Britain rather shortsightedly, or otherwise (I am not starting that argument here), energized and kick started the Soviet jet engine industry by allowing them to buy at least 25 Rolls Royce Nene engines. The resulting Soviet reversed engineered clones, the Klimov RD-45, and a larger version, the Klimov VK-1, found immediate and deadly use in the formidable MiG-15 fighter and, whose design, informed by the Nene, also influenced the wholly Soviet designed Mikulin AM-3 turbojet used in the Tupolev Tu-16 (Badger) bomber.

Anyway I thought a thread on Russian bombers (and their civil counterparts) would be interesting.

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Re: Badgers, Blinders, Bears and other Soviet Bombers

#2 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed May 27, 2020 3:26 am



Interesting even if you don't speak Russian.
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Re: Badgers, Blinders, Bears and other Soviet Bombers

#3 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed May 27, 2020 9:19 am

I should have started with some Bull, and the Soviet version of the US B-29.

Tu-4 BULL

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Re: Badgers, Blinders, Bears and other Soviet Bombers

#4 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Wed May 27, 2020 10:18 am

The Il-28 BEAGLE was the first jet bomber and was powered by the Klimov, Nene copies.

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