Tupolev ANT-41

The Tupolev ANT-41, with the Navy designation T-1, was a prototype Soviet twin-engined torpedo bomber begun in March 1934 for Soviet Naval Aviation as a high-speed, long-range torpedo carrier, reconnaissance aircraft and cruiser escort. Vladimir Myasishchev led the design team. It was a mid-winged all-metal stressed-skin monoplane in the layout of the SB bomber but larger, with two Mikulin AM-34 engines and a long weapons bay for two 880 kg torpedoes or one 1,700 kg torpedo. The only prototype first flew on 2 June 1936 at Khodynka Aerodrome in Moscow and crashed on its fourteenth test flight on 3 July 1936 after aileron-induced flutter; the Ilyushin DB-3 was chosen instead and the type was cancelled.