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Historical Aviation Film Unit

Initially Published on 15 Jun 2011

This video is a World War 2 Soviet aviation film highlighting the Tupolev SB2 high speed bomber.

It was numerically the most important bomber in the world in the late 1930s, and it was the first modern stressed-skin aircraft produced in quantity in the Soviet Union. Many versions saw extensive action in Spain, the Republic of China, Mongolia, Finland and at the beginning of the War against Germany in 1941.

As far as we are aware the original of this film was made by a division of the Red Army Air Force Scientific Research Institute, and as such we believe there are no copyrights on this material which is now over 60 years old.