Tu-75 | |
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General information | |
Type | Transport |
National origin | Soviet Union |
Manufacturer | Tupolev |
Status | Cancelled |
Number built | 1 |
History | |
First flight | 21 January 1950 |
Developed from | Tupolev Tu-4/Tupolev Tu-70 |
The Tupolev Tu-75 (Russian: Туполев Ту-75) was a military transport variant of the Tu-4 bomber, an unlicensed, reverse engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The Tu-75 was similar to the Tu-70 airliner, both using a new, purpose-designed fuselage. The first Soviet military machine of this class, it was equipped with a rear fuselage loading ramp. It was not placed into production because the VVS decided it would be cheaper to modify its existing Tu-4s for the transport mission and to use its existing Lisunov Li-2 and Ilyushin Il-12 transports.