Strangest Aircraft Designs: The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Submarine Hunter

[Dronescapes]

Strangest Aircraft Designs: The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Submarine Hunter

 

[Capt. Vick]

Amazingly they make 1/72 kits of both versions of this beast

 

[GTX]

Amazingly they make 1/72 kits of both versions of this beast

Indeed: Bartini-Beriev VVA-14 | Jets - Aircraft

And 1/144

 

[ThomasP]

When I see images of these aircraft I always think of TV science-fiction series like the Thunderbirds, or UFO, Space 1999, etc.

 

[thunderbird]

Interesting enough the designer was an Italian communist named Bartini. Bartini moved to Russia before WWII, and worked for Yermayalev or maybe Ermayalev where he designed an inverted gull, twin engined diesel motors designated YER-2 or ER-2 bomber. The YER-2 was supposedly the first to drop bombs on Berlin in WWII, but a very small raid that didn’t cause much damage. And then the Yermayalev factories were overrun by the Germans and production was stopped. Bartini was the victim of Stalin’s paranoia and was arrested and spent time in Siberia.

 

[Capt. Vick]

When I see images of these aircraft I always think of TV science-fiction series like the Thunderbirds, or UFO, Space 1999, etc.

It was featured in one of the Metal Gear Solid video games.