Complete Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft A.N. Tupolev. Comprehensive information on the creation, production and combat use of aircraft masterpieces of the great designer, whose name is inextricably linked with the entire history of the domestic air force. This under his leadership in the early 1930s. a heavy TB-3 bomber (ANT-6) and a high-speed SB (ANT-40) were created, which at that time had no equal. His "flying fortresses" TB-7 already bombed Berlin in August 1941, and the magnificent Tu-2 is rightfully considered one of the best front-line bomber-divers of the Second World War. Its "super-strength" Tu-4 became the first Soviet aircraft capable of delivering a retaliatory nuclear strike on America, Tu-95, Tu-16 and Tu-22 ensured the security of our country during the Cold War, and the Tu-22MZ and Tu-160 missile carriers, revolutionary in technology and unsurpassed in striking power, to this day form the basis of long-range aviation of the Russian Air Force.