Sovietwarplanes pages
by Massimo Tessitori
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Welcome to Sovietwarplanes Pages. It is devoted to modellistic/historical research and artwork about Soviet military planes.

 

Most recent updates:

February 19, 2024: the download of the files on Il-2 of Ivan Rodionov has been temporarily disabled up to the next month due to the excess of download traffic. Please wait the next month to retry.

January 23, 2024: a research of Ivan Rodionov on the Il-2 bis prototype, translated and illustrated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

December 1, 2023: a research of Ivan Rodionov on the Il-2 M-82 prototype, translated and illustrated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

September 7, 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on the first prototypes of Il-2 (TsKB-55, TsKB-57, TsKB-55P), translated and illustrated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

27 June 2023: new photos and revised profiles of MiG-3 Striped 97

June 20, 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 18 (7) in 1942, translated by Daniele Righi, was updated

June 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 18 (6) in 1941, translated by Daniele Righi, was updated

June 4, 2023: a wide remake of the profiles of the MiG-3 page was uploaded; new profiles, photos and pages are available.

May 19, 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on Il-2 geometry, translated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

May 13, 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on two-seater Il-2s built in Factory 1 in 1942/45, translated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

May 4, 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on two-seater Il-2s built in Factory 18 (8) in 1944/45, translated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

April 27, 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on two-seater Il-2s built in Factory 18 (7) in 1942-44, translated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

April 10, 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on two-seater Il-2s built in Factory 30 translated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

March 28, 2023: a Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 381 translated by Daniele Righi, was uploaded

March 26, 2028: Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 1 in 1942 and on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 30 in 1942 translated by Daniele Righi, were uploaded

 

 

Painting standards evolution

Biplane fighters
Monoplane fighters
Biplane bombers, trainers, reconaissance planes
Monoplane bombers, trainers, reconaissance single-engined planes
Bombers, transport and reconaissance multi-engined planes

colorized historical photos

Page with some historical bw photos

colorized by Massimo Tessitori

This work collects also a lot of photos and drawings from many sources, not always identified and mentioned.
If someone has some rights on the images here reproduced, please email to me and I shall provide to remove or to credit them.
While the historical photos are of public domain (except where otherwise stated), my color profiles and coloured photos are copyrighted.
If someone is interested in any use of them, please email me; higher resolution version is available for printing purposes.
If someone has questions, critiques or corrections, or some further images to show, please email to me.

Massimo Tessitori           [email protected] (remove .nospam)