Update of 5 January 1918: pages on SB in Finnish service have been uploaded
and linked: brief general history,
evolution of the painting and
marking, photos and profiles
sorted for plane numbers
Update of 5 January 2018: a page has been uploaded and linked: Soviet
SBs during the Winter War
Update of 22 February 2018: Soviet
SBs during Barbarossa: introduction
and links to sub-pages , with a lot of colorful profiles
Update of 28 February 2018: B.71
in Czechoslovak and Slovak service.
Update of 26 March 2018: Soviet SBs
in Far East before the GPW
Update of 12 April 2018: SBs in Chinese
service
Update of 12 June 2018: USB, the trainer conversion
Update of November 1, 2018: B.71
in German service
Update of November 9, 2018: SB in civilian
use: PS-40 and 41
Update of November 19, 2018: B.71
in Bulgarian service
Updates of February 2, 2019: SBs
in Spanish Republican service and SBs
in Spanish Nationalist and postwar service
Update of March 8, 2019: ANT-40
and ANT-46 prototypes
Update of March 13, 2019: Improving
the defensive armament of SB
Update of March 20, 2019: The
Pterodactyl: test bed for a tricycle landing gear
Update of March 30, 2019: The
later evolution of the SB: the MMN, the SB-RK and the Ar-2
Update of April 6, 2019: A fast successor
for the SB: the SBB
Bibliography:
Tupolev SB of M.Maslov, ed. Icarus : the main reference on
this subject of SB and derivatives in English.
Airwar 064 and 065: very wide and complete monographs, in
Russian
Tupolew SB, Monografie Lotnicze n.083, very
good monograph im Polish
Squadron-Signal in Action n.194- Tupolev SB: nice monograph
in English with a lot of good photos.
Red Star 7, Winter War In The Air, aut. Geusts ed. Apali
Red stars 5, Baltic Fleet Airforce in Winter War, aut. Geust,
Tirkeltaub, Petrov, ed Apali
Suomen ilmavoimien historia 9: "Venäläiset Pommittajat"
of Kalevi Keskinen, Kari Stenman, Klaus Niska.
Warpaint- Finnish Air Force Colors - Finnish Air Force Series # 23
of Keskinen, Stenman
Suomen Ilmavoimien Historia 24: LER 5 of Keskinen, Stenman
Letectvi Kosmonautika, numeri vari
Links:
http://crimso.msk.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft20867.htm
is an excellent gallery of photos, profiles and scale drawings.
http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_4728_start_0.html
good general topic on SB in Russian
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww15/b/44/1/1
a wide collection of profiles of SB
http://nnm.ru/blogs/shamba/hronika_propavshego_bombardirovshika/
photographic report of the discovery of a wreck. In Russian.
http://www.avia-n-aero.ru/photo.php
a mine of photos, many of which taken by German soldiers during Barbarossa and
showing lots of SB, forthemost wrecked.
http://www.dishmodels.ru/wshow.htm?p=143
walkaround of the plane preserved in Monino
http://vadimvswar.narod.ru/ALL_OUT/AiKOut02/AR-2/AR-2001.htm
excellent article on the evolution of SB and Ar-2, in Russian
http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,5483.312.html
good images of a well detailed SB inside for a flight simulator
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/board/index.php?topic=1808.0
excellent build of a SB of ICM
Credits:
Tapani Tuomanen has drawn the color profiles and collected
a part of the documents.
Aleksandr Ruckovsky, researcher for the Foxbot Decals, shared
his wide photo archive and helped in collecting informations.
Igor Zlobin, of Kolibri Decals, helped for the identification
of the units;
Mikhail Timin wrote articles on the Soviet Air Force that
are a great source;
PG monster, author of a page on the markings of Soviet planes,
helped for the identification of units;
Michal Sekula (66misos) helped with his researches about the
B-71 and other items.
In general, many members of Sovietwarplanes forum were helping
in mny ways.
