Polikarpov

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Soviet aircraft design bureau

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Field	Value
name	Polikarpov Design Bureau
foundation	Moscow, Russia
fate	Absorbed into Lavochkin
defunct
successor
key_people	Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov
industry	Aerospace
products	Aircraft
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Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. Dux Factory was acquired by the USSR and became part of Polikarpov.

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After the death of Polikarpov on 30 July 1944 at the age of 52, his OKB was absorbed into Lavochkin, but with some of its engineers going to Mikoyan-Gurevich and its production facilities going to Sukhoi. For a long time the Polikarpov OKB headquarters were located at Aircraft plant #1 (formerly Dux Factory) in Moscow, where its purpose-built building still stands.

Designs

Polikarpov designs:

Bombers

TB-2 twin-engined biplane bomber prototype, 1930
SPB (D) twin-engined dive bomber developed from the VIT-2, 1940
NB (T) medium bomber prototype, 1944

Fighters

I-1 (IL-400) monoplane fighter prototype, 1923
DI-1 (2I-N1) twin-seat biplane fighter prototype, 1926
I-3 biplane fighter, 1928
DI-2 two-seat biplane fighter developed from the I-3, 1929
I-6 biplane fighter prototype, 1930
I-5 biplane fighter, 1930
I-13/ANT-32 fighter project, 1931
I-15 Chaika biplane fighter, 1933
I-16 fighter, 1933
I-15-2/I-152 (I-15bis) prototype modernized version of I-15, 1938
I-15-3/I-153 Chaika biplane fighter
I-17 fighter prototype, 1934
I-180 prototype fighter developed from the I-16, 1938
I-185 prototype fighter developed from the I-180, 1941
I-190 biplane fighter prototype developed from I-153, 1939
I-200 (MiG-1) fighter
TIS (MA) twin-engined heavy fighter prototype, 1941
ITP (M) fighter prototype, 1942
Malyutka rocket-powered fighter, abandoned incomplete upon Polikarpov's death

Ground attack

VIT-1 twin-engined attack aircraft prototype, 1937
VIT-2 development of VIT-1, 1938
Ivanov ground attack aircraft prototype, 1938

Reconnaissance

R-1 unlicensed copy of the British Airco DH.9A bomber.
MR-1 floatplane version of R-1 with wooden floats. 124 built.
MR-2 (PM-2) floatplane version of R-1 with Munzel metal floats. 1 built.
R-2 biplane reconnaissance aircraft based on R-1.
R-4 biplane reconnaissance aircraft (R-1 development, not produced).
R-5 biplane reconnaissance aircraft, 1928.
SSS light bomber development of R-5.
R-Z reconnaissance/light bomber, developed from the R-5, 1935.

Airliners/transport

PM-1 (P-2) biplane airliner
P-5 light transport version of R-5
PR-5 airliner developed from R-5
PR-12 monoplane airliner development based on the PR-5, 1938
P-Z commercial variant of R-Z
BDP (S) transport glider
MP powered version of the BDP
Limozin (D) light transport aircraft, abandoned incomplete upon Polikarpov's death

Trainers

Po-2/U-2 "Mule" general purpose biplane, 1928
P-2 biplane trainer, 1927

References

"PM-2 floatplane by Polikarpov and Munzel".

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