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You may not be aware that the Russians didn't have 'manufacturers' like we are used to, designing and developing their aircraft and then, if lucky enough to be selected, producing them.
The Soviets just had 'design bureaux' whose sole responsibility was the design and prototyping of the aircraft, all production then being taken away and done in the govt owned state aircraft factories which could end up building aircraft designed by any of the famous names mentioned earlier in the thread.
Gentlemen, I'm hoping you can help me with this one as it's been annoying me for just over 30 yrs. Google is unhelpful. It appears at the back of a book (1954) devoted to jet engines, but with an encyclopaedic coverage of "existing" jet powered aircraft.
Now I know that with publications around this period the West was very "imaginative" when it came to USSR products, but did it exist?
EF (Junkers, in Soviet hands?) I think we discussed EF machines in the Ju-287 thread?
There is no mention of it in the text, just a top view line drawing and the caption...
(And there are a few more illustrated Soviet oddities, if you're interested.)
It was designed as the Junkers EF.128 and was to be a fighter, but was never built or flown as far as I can confirm (who knows what archive material still lurks unfound in Russian Libraries?)
I found information that says not only was a complete mockup built, but the actual fuselage was built and test-flown underneath a Ju-88. Venganza
Yes, that is certainly the Il-28 in that picture.
I also have amongst my own books a photo of a MiG 15 variant with a solid nose, lateral intakes (like the Gloster Javelin except very small) and moveable cannon installation in the nose that could be vectored up and down, have you seen it?
Meanwhile this impression looks very much like the large bomber you illustrated