EXP-070 Tupolev SB Bomber. The Development bookThe description of perfection of the airplane, is told
about participation SB in operations in area of Hasan
lake, in Mongolia, China, operation use in
Czechoslovakian and Bulgarian Air Forces. Using in civil
air fleet, in Soviet Polar Aviation is described. Also
described history of ANT-35 aircraft.
The special attention is given to participation SB in
the Soviet-Finnish war ("Winter War") where the bomber was used in big quantity. Therefore and losses of them appeared
the greatest. If, not speaking about lacks of command
and management, weak preparation of crews and to
obstinate sample use it is necessary to note some the
technical features, not allowed is high-grade to
realize this bomber. First of all, SB in the winter
1939/40 was not a high-speed bomber. Flying with
external ski chassis, bomber had flight speed within
the limits of 300 km/h and consequently became victim
of the Finnish fighters. Small heights of flight in
conditions of bad visibility and low overcast did
plane vulnerable and from ground AA fire. Air gunners
in winter regimentals had very few opportunities to
use simultaneously top and bottom machine gun.
However, this "achilles' heel " of the SB so never not
was eliminated... |
