Tupolev ANT-26
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The Tupolev ANT-26 ( Russian Туполев АНТ-26 , also: TB-6 , ТБ-6) and the Tupolev ANT-28 (Туполев АНТ-28) were two planned military aircraft of the Soviet design office Tupolev from the 1930s. The ANT-26 was planned as a bomber and with a wingspan of 95 meters and a wing area of 800 m² would have become one of the largest aircraft of all time , larger than the much later Antonov An-225 with a wingspan of "only" 88.4 Meters. The Tupolev ANT-28 was the associated planned cargo plane .
ANT-26
The ANT-26 was to be a giant bomber with a maximum take-off weight of 70 tons . The planned span was 95 meters. Twelve supercharged 12-cylinder Mikulin AM-34 FRN engines should have powered the aircraft; six of them on the profile nose of the wing, two on the trailing edge of the profile and four on the front (with pull propeller) or rear (pusher propeller) of two engine pylons that should have been mounted on the wings. The crew would have consisted of twenty men, including four gunners to operate machine guns on the aircraft fuselage and four gunners for on-board cannons , one each in a turret above the fuselage, one in a turret at the stern and on both engine pylons.
The disappointing results of the Tupolev ANT-16 / TB-4 - the engine turned out to be too weak for an aircraft of its size - meant that the development of the ANT-26 was completely stopped in 1936, although Andrei Tupolev and Vladimir Petlyakov were already considerable Had done design work.
ANT-28
The Tupolev ANT-28 was designed to transport an entire company including vehicles or field cannons . The span should have been about 60 meters, the propulsion should be done by twelve Mikulin M-17 engines. When the development of the ANT-26 was abandoned, the planning for the ANT-28 was also discontinued.
Web links
- History of the TB-6 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinz Eyermann : The aviation of the USSR. , Transpress, Berlin 1977, p. 79
- ^ A b Paul Duffy, Andrei Kandalov: Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft . Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1996, ISBN 1-85310-728-X , pp. 73 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Karl Hecks: Bombing 1939–45: the air offensive against land targets in World War Two . Hale, 1996, ISBN 0-7090-4020-2 , pp. 38 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Paul Duffy, Andrei Kandalov: Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft . Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1996, ISBN 1-85310-728-X , pp. 74 ( limited preview in Google Book search).