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Why do so many heavy of the large Soviet Aircraft still have glass under the nose of the aircraft?
I suspect to preserve the myth that they can be quickly converted to bombers. A lot of them also have vestigial tail gunner stations. It's also a great nav station if you're navigating by pilotage, and some even have a small celestial dome between the glass nose and the cockpit windshield.
 

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