The Polikarpov TIS was a heavily armed Soviet heavy fighter designed during the early 1940s. Competing contemporaneous designs in the USSR included the...
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Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. Dux Factory was acquired by the USSR and...
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The Polikarpov I-16 (Russian: Поликарпов И-16) is a Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it is a low-wing cantilever...
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designs in the USSR included the Grushin Gr-1, Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS and Polikarpov TIS. Tairov designed and built the OKO-6 to a Soviet Air Force requirement...
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The Polikarpov I-15 (Russian: И-15) was a Soviet biplane fighter aircraft of the 1930s. Nicknamed Chaika (Russian: Чайка, "gull") because of its gulled...
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aircraft. Competing designs in the USSR included the Grushin Gr-1, Polikarpov TIS and Tairov Ta-3. It was intended to develop reconnaissance and bomber...
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Prototype 13 Polikarpov I-185 USSR 1941 Prototype 4 Polikarpov I-190 USSR 1939 Prototype 2 Polikarpov ITP USSR 1942 Prototype 2 Polikarpov TIS USSR Heavy...
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The Polikarpov I-153 Chaika (Russian: Чайка, lit. 'gull') is a late 1930s Soviet sesquiplane fighter. Developed from the I-15 with a retractable undercarriage...
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1 buried radial-engine fighter Polikarpov I-185 Soviet Union 1941 5 Polikarpov ITP Soviet Union 1942 2 Polikarpov TIS Soviet Union 1941 2 Prajadhipok...
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heavy fighter designs; such as the Grushin Gr-1, Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS, Polikarpov TIS, and the Tairov Ta-3; were proposed, but never moved beyond test stages...
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS Polikarpov TIS Tupolev Tu-2 Yermolaev Yer-2 Data from Kotelnikov, Russian Piston Aero...
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The Polikarpov I-17 was a Soviet single-seat fighter prototype designed and built by a team headed by Nikolai Polikarpov at the Central Design Bureau (TsKB)...
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The Polikarpov I-5 was a single-seat biplane which became the primary Soviet fighter between its introduction in 1931 through 1936, after which it became...
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The Polikarpov I-1 was the first indigenous Soviet monoplane fighter. It had to be redesigned after the crash of the first prototype, and was eventually...
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AT-10 Wichita August 1 – Grumman TBF Avenger August 8 – Spencer Air Car Polikarpov TIS September 18 – Curtiss XP-60 Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien ("Swallow"), Allied...
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The Polikarpov I-3 (Russian: Поликарпов И-3) was a Soviet fighter designed during the late 1920s. It entered service in 1929, but was retired in 1935 with...
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List of aircraft (Pi–Pz) (section Polikarpov)
Polikarpov SPL Polikarpov SSS Polikarpov SVB Polikarpov TB-2 Polikarpov TIS Polikarpov TPK Polikarpov U-2 Polikarpov UTI-1 Polikarpov UTI-2 Polikarpov UTI-3 Polikarpov...
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The Polikarpov I-6 was a Soviet biplane fighter prototype of the late 1920s. It was designed with traditional wooden construction in comparison with the...
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The Polikarpov DI-1 (DI - Dvukhmesnyy Istrebitel - two-seat fighter), also known as 2I-N1, Russian: Поликарпов ДИ-1 (2И-Н1), was a prototype Soviet two-seat...
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fevgeis 1977: Arhontes (T' eihes Gianni, t' eiha panta) 1978: Tembelides tis eforis koiladas, Oi (a.k.a. Idlers of the Fertile Valley) 1981: Souvliste...
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Heinkel HD 37 (redirect from Polikarpov I-7)
experiencing a crisis with the obsolescence of its main fighter, the Polikarpov I-5, with no replacement apparently forthcoming from domestic manufacturers...
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was cancelled after only a small number had been built, the competing Polikarpov I-16 being preferred. In 1932, the Soviet Air Force developed a requirement...
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cannon (later fit) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Polikarpov I-17 Gordon, Yefim. (2004). OKB Ilyushin. London: Ian Allan. pp. 13–14...
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Although initial tests demonstrated flight characteristics comparable to Polikarpov I-5, the addition of armament and operational equipment caused significant...
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machine gun in cowling Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Polikarpov I-180 Orbis 1985, p. 3116 Nemecek 1986, pp. 408-409 Nemecek, Vaclav (1986)...
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Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, development of promising designs, like the Polikarpov I-185, proved unfeasible. Yakovlev might have been Joseph Stalin's favorite...
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controls, and a tendency for the nose to lift on accelerating. As the Polikarpov I-3 was still in development, the decision was made to continue with production...
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development of his monoplane fighter in early 1939. A former employee of N. N. Polikarpov, Pashinin envisioned the I-21 as a replacement for the increasingly obsolescent...
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[moschnost'yu] 400 [loshadinykh sil] - fighter with a 400hp Liberty engine Polikarpov IL-400 IOP Istrebitel' odnomestny Pushechnyi – single-seat cannon fighter...
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single-seat fighter by Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, to compete with the Polikarpov I-1 biplane. The finished aircraft, finalised in 1924 and produced at...
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