#soviet union aircraft

[cid5]

Ernst Kupfer Stuka Ace of StG 2 ,Immelmann" during Operation Barbarossa in the Soviet Union, 1941/42.

[usafphantom2]

Ka-22 Vintokryl. A Soviet Gyrodyne from the 60s. It took off vertically with its rotors, then they were switched off and the propellers were used for normal flight.

@Destroye83 via X

[irondeterrent]

Soviet MiG-23M in flight in 1989

[enriquemzn262]

Gotta love it when military aircraft manufacturers decide to make passenger aircraft in the laziest way possible, by taking a bomber design and just adding a wider fuselage, for example:

The Soviet Tupolev Tu-104

Comes from the Tu-16 medium bomber

The Tu-114

From the Tu-95

And the Tu-70 prototype

Comes from the soviet copy of the American Boeing B-29 bomber, which also had an official airliner derivative

The Boeing Stratocruiser.

And since we’re outside the iron curtain

The British Avro York

Is a heavily modified variant of the iconic Avro Lancaster heavy bomber.

[usafphantom5]

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 15 UTI

@ron_eisele via X

[stone-cold-groove]

Early Soviet Air Forces’ fighter aircraft.

[humanoidhistory]

From the draft folder. (via)

[ghostwarriorrrr]

T-80UDs heading into Moscow, 1991 Soviet August coup.

[bills991]

The Ilyushin Il-76 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO: Candid) is a Soviet aircraft developed by Ilyushin in the mid-1960s when the Soviet Air Force requested the development of a jet-powered cargo aircraft to replace the Antonov An-12 "cub". Its T-tail and landing gear with multiple axles and 20 tires makes it possible to operate on unprepared runways.

[dronescapesvideos]

Never forget the past. A Focke-Wulf Fw 190 crashed in a forest near Leningrad in 1943 and was found only in 1989, 45 years later. Never forget history. ➤GERMAN AIRCRAFT VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/WWIIGermany

[cid5]

XI Air Corps (XI. Fliegerkorps) Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) standing with ammunition belt and shouldered MG 42 machine gun in Russia.

[usafphantom2]

Soviet VVS Fighter Pilot walks away from his Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-21 Fishbed* while a Tupolev Tu-95 Bear* cruises over head

@Destroye83 via X

[anthonypeawashere]

Remembering that time the Soviets pulled a 1:1 recreation of a B-29 (pictured) out of their asses, slapped a red star on it and called it the TU-4.

As far as I understand, they seemingly did this by attempting to make it a 1:1 replica, even when they had specific technologies or building techniques that were superior.

The Soviet Union also had to reverse engineer it from near scratch, as even the thickness of the Hull had to be figured out (America used imperial whereas everyone else used metric), and the very best thing about it is that their main motivation to do all this was to show the Americans that they had the ability to drop a nuke (which, mind you, they had just barely invented), with the whole 'we engineered your $60 billion dollar plane in two years" aspect merely being a bonus.

They made the plane as close as possible to prove to the US that they had a bomber that could attack the mainland, because that was easier than making a new design and proving what they wanted to prove.

[supplyside]

Russian helicopter carrier with missile tubes

[worldhistorian1845]

Millions of Native German's were killed during World War Two because they didn't fit the picture of the perfect German. Before them being killed, they were imprisoned in camps as a punishment.

[pukindog-v2]

WARPAC MiG-17 'Fresco' of the DDR East German Air Force