πŸ”— Tupolev Tu-4

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The Tupolev Tu-4 (Russian: Π’ΡƒΠΏΠΎΠ»Π΅Π² Π’Ρƒ-4; NATO reporting name: Bull) is a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. The aircraft was a copy of the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, having been reverse-engineered from seized aircraft that had made emergency landings in the USSR.

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