May 25th, 1968. The above film capture was taken from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Essex whilst on maneuvers in the Norwegian Sea. A Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 “buzzed” the carrier at extremely low altitude, before it eventually (and accidentally) clipped the water and crashed into the sea.
there were no survivors. the remains that were recovered were handed over to a Soviet destroyer..
video here
December 09, 2009, 9:41pm
a sky full of bombers
taken from a Norwegian Air Force F-104, sometime in the early 1970s. Norwegian aircraft would sometimes encounter formations of up to 30 Soviet aircraft (Tu-16s, in this case) on flights out to disrupt NATO shipping in the Atlantic or, in this case, on a mock attack mission against Norway itself..
December 09, 2009, 8:34pm
Beriev Be-6 being intercepted by an A-4 Skyhawk, somewhere/sometime during the Cold War..
December 03, 2009, 6:53pm
Beriev MBR-2 reconnaissance flying boats (with G-5 class motor torpedo boats)
December 01, 2009, 10:04pm
“37mm Obukhov gun on a Grigorovich M-9 flying boat from the carrier Orlitsa, based in the Baltic”
December 01, 2009, 8:23pm
Grigorovich M-9 and M-15, from a Russian identification manual, Finnish National Archive..
(via Martti J. Kujansuu on Flickr)
December 01, 2009, 6:53pm
reblog: sovietfrequency: Single-engine Airplane, for xplanes..This, I think, is the Shavrov Sh-26, an ambulance variant of the highly successful Sh-2 - which looks to have been produced in greater numbers than any other Russian seaplane.kinochestvo: I have no idea what this is- but it is totally bizarre/awesome. The fuselage looks a little like a Yak-3 but that doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
December 01, 2009, 3:26pm
Hero of the Soviet Union Anatoliy Vasilevich Kislyakov
the aircraft behind him are American Bell P-39 Airacobras, obtained through the Lend-Lease program - approximately 4,600 of the 9,500 produced P-39s ended up in the Soviet Union. Although the P-39 was quickly viewed as being virtually obsolete in the west, due to its poor performance at high altitude, it was used to immense effect by The Red Air Force
October 28, 2009, 7:35pm
“Finnish Airforce identification manual for the Russian aircraft in spring 1942”
October 28, 2009, 3:20pm
the Grokhovsky G-38, a Soviet multi-role project, circa 1935. no photos seem to exist of the sole aeroplane that was built, so here is a nice image courtesy of Gino Marcomini
October 28, 2009, 8:40am
