Can you ID this wrecked aircraft?

[norwest]

I'm not very good at identifying aircraft, even when they're in working condition. Can someone help me with this one?

--Kevin

 

[Airframes]

Aircraft in the background are Me110s, and the Luftwaffe ground crew man is holding what appears to be a Soviet MG.
I'm not that familiar with Russian aircraft, but I think the "wreckage" may be Russian, and no doubt others here can identify it.

 

[Wurger]

I agree with Airframes. The machine gun is the soviet 7,62 mm SzKAS. It is the variant used for a gun turret in 1940. So it may suggest a soviet plane with the gunner station ( mostly the top rear one ) powered by the inline engine. IMHO it could be the Tupolev SB-2M-103.

 

[Crimea_River]

My first thought was that it may be a pile of wreckage containing at least 2 aircraft. Prop and spinner on the right looks like an inline engine but the exhaust details at left suggest radial.

 

[norwest]

Thanks guys, you've already been a big help. I was wondering what type of gun that was. Cheers!

--Kevin

 

[cammerjeff]

With the Liquid Cooled engines, smooth cowling and the exhaust pipes exiting the top side of the leading edge of the wing, I think it is a Arkhangelsky Ar-2 dive bomber.

history of Ar-2

 

[Crimea_River]

Yep, I can totally see that.

 

[fire-fox]

I'd say the MG is defiantly a ShKas MG. But from an air gunners position as it's got a pistol grip.

Engine and prop behind him could be Ar-2, with tanks, ducting from within the wing from foreground left to right