Key facts
- Type
- Strategic bomber
- National origin
- Soviet Union
- Manufacturer
- Tupolev
- Status
- Retired
- Primary users
- Soviet Air Force PLA Air Force
- Manufactured
- 1949–1952
- First flight
- 19 May 1947
- Retired
- 1988 (China)
- Developed from
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress
- Variants
- Tupolev Tu-70 , Tupolev Tu-75
- Developed into
- Tupolev Tu-80 , Tupolev Tu-85
- Successors
- Tupolev Tu-16
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- bomber
- Operator
- Long Range Aviation
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Based on
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress
- Developer
- Tupolev
- Designed by
- Andrei Tupolev
- Image
- Tu4.jpg
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- armament
- FAB-500
- NATO reporting name
- Bull
- Commons category
- Tupolev Tu-4
- powered by
- Shvetsov ASh-73
- first flight
- 1947-05-19
- service entry
- 1949-00-00
- total produced
- 847
- different from
- TU4
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tupolev Tu-4 (Russian: Туполев Ту-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.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tupolev Tu-4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.