gadeshi
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Great photos, though...Grandfather of "bear" and the coolest Russian plane ever. Especially because of the history of development
The Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name: Bull) was a piston-engined Sovietstrategic bomber that served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid-1960s. It was a reverse-engineered copy of the U.S.-made Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
Tu-4 was worlds first real anti-shipping missiles carrier, worlds first strategic missiles carrier and worlds first dedicated ESM/ECM aircraft for group ECM support.
So, it was not a blind copy.
It resembles me Chinese projects based on Soviet types, where chinese engineers achieved great and very intresting, unusual results.