TB-6/ANT-26/ANT-28 | |
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Role | Bomber |
National origin | Soviet Union |
Manufacturer | Tupolev |
Designer | Andrei Tupolev, Vladimir Petlyakov |
Primary user | Red Air Force (intended) |
Number built | 0 |
Developed from | ANT-16 |
Tupolev TB-6 (internal designation ANT-26; Russian: Туполев ТБ-6/АНТ-26) was a proposal by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1930s for a super-heavy bomber. Had it been built, it would have been the biggest-ever Soviet bomber and the largest aircraft by wingspan of its time, nine feet short of the 320 foot span of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, although the Scaled Composites Stratolaunch is now the biggest plane by wingspan.