Interwar Russian flying boats

[Wirelizard]

From the reliably awesome xplanes blog, a whole series of posts concerning Russian flying boats of the interwar period. I nearly kept these over on the Pulp forum, as flying boats are both the awesomest and pulpiest of aeroplanes!

http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/265153397/grigorovich-m-9-and-m-15-from-a-russian


http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/265231179/37mm-obukhov-gun-on-a-grigorovich-m-9-flying-boat

http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/265309070/the-chetverikov-spl-collapsible-flying-boat-circa

http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/265337356/beriev-mbr-2-reconnaissance-flying-boats-with-g-5


http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/264982034/reblog-sovietfrequency-single-engine-airplane


Also from xplanes, not a flying boat, but still awesome:
http://xplanes.tumblr.com/post/225738872/the-grokhovsky-g-38-a-soviet-multi-role-project

[marianas_gamer]

Wow!    Very Cool!  The last one looks like a cross between a P38 Lightning and a B2 stealth bomber.

[former user]

cool

what the heck is the last picture representing?

[Tacgnol]

Apparently it was an experimental Soviet "cruiser" plane that was shelved when it was almost completed in 1936. It was tooled up with forward and rear firing cannons, machine guns and wing mounted grenade launchers (!) and could carry bombs in a bomber/dive bomber role. There's a 1:72 kit of it.

http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/on/g38/g38.htm

[former user]

thx, very interesting

could work as a concept for a flying boat, but more VSF