SSS Assault (R-5SSS)

Widely known plane P NN-5 EDO. Polikarpov during its existence, had many modifications. But the first attack variant of the R-5 was the result of initiatives commander of the 252nd Air Brigade AA. Turzhansky and Brigadier Engineer Pavlov. At their request, with production aircraft bomb racks were removed ventral beam and installed on the lower wing box with machine guns PT-1. The aircraft successfully tested and declared a model for alterations in other aviation units, and then for the serial production at the factory number 1. Modified machine received the designation P-5SH.

Photo Airplane SSS (R-5SSS)

2 Martha 1934 g. issued a decree of the Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR, ordering to create a prototype aircraft attack aircraft F-5 machine guns ShKAS. By plane has to use all the innovations, provided for the production of P-5 1934 g. The plant № 1 to reduce weight and improve aerodynamics on the plane were installed, except the engine M-17F, teardrop-shaped fairing on the chassis, entered fairings on the struts and struts. Glider facilitated by the use in the construction instead of spruce pine. New guns SHKAC, able to do 1500 rounds per minute, twice as much as the possibility of PV-1. Such a significant increase in second salvo will limit chetyrehstvolnoy wing battery (two machine guns on the wing), abandoning the fifth PV-1 on F-5SH. Fire could be conducted from two extreme, two secondary or from all four barrels. As defensive weapons on top of the shooter was installed another ShKAS. This plane is called the CAS, ie. "expressway, skoropodъemnыy, rapid-fire ".

The first prototype of the CCC was flight tested in November 1934 g. After the tests, the plane recognized unusable and returned to the factory with a long list of defects found (wood screw, no brakes). After dodelok plane again presented to the test. Chief of Air Force Commander YA.I. Alksnsht; demanded boost SRI tests. Tests have revealed a number of comments, concerning arms. As a result, the aircraft could not resist state tests. The Research Institute of the plane is adjusted as best they could. In September 1935 g. the first ten production vehicles were sent to military trials for Gomel. First flew on STS Brigade Commander AA. Turzhansky. When tests revealed a lot of flaws in design and armament. But in the end, even after a number of improvements, the aircraft was put into service. AT 1935 g. factory produced 221 SSS.

In August 1936 g. new aircraft for the first time participated in a large air force maneuvers. 7 November new attack aircraft was first shown at the parade in Moscow. CCC had to participate in the war in Spain. The planes were delivered to Odessa, where they were dismantled and loaded onto a Spanish ship "Aldekoa", Total 24 cars. There they bombed airfields, road and railway stations, settlements. The Spaniards CCC was nicknamed "Rasante" ("Razor"). Given the not very successful experience with these machines in Spain, their production began to rapidly turn off. On 22 June 1941 g. Air Force of the country, there were 104 airplane SSS, of which rise in the air could at least half. The first German air strikes on Soviet airfields out of action most of these aircraft. TO 22 September at the front there was not a CAS aircraft.

Tactic-technical characteristics SSS (R-5SSS)

The four-aircraft circuit CCC (R-5SSS)

SSS (R-5SSS) BBC Spain

SSS (R-5SSS) Red Army Air Force participated in the Soviet-Finnish War

Model Airplane SSS (R-5SSS)

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