[Milsurplus] Re B-29 HF Radios

Sun, 05 May 2002 20:03:42 -0700

Hi Meir,

No, that is not correct.  The Russians did replicate a B-29 -- to include 
the avionics.

There was a special on the Discovery cable channel about 3 months ago that 
went into great detail how Stalin ordered the Russians to re-engineer the 
B-29 exactly -- The Russians were successful in most endeavors and only 
made concessions related to machine guns, engines, wheels and tires.  They 
were so successful, and anal, in re-engineering the B-29 that they even 
include a repair patch to the fuselage.

There were a total of three B-29s that the Russians got their hands on:

On July 29, 1944 Ramp Tramp, a B-29-5-BW serial number 42-6256, was unable 
to return to its base after a raid in Manchuria and landed in Vladivostok.

On November 11, 1944 The General H.H. Arnold Special, serial number 
42-6365, was damaged during a raid against Omura on Kyushu was forced to 
divert to Vladivostok

On November 21, 1944 Ding How, serial number 42-6358, also landed in 
Vladivostok.

Check this web site out.

http://www.monino.8m.com/39a.html

Fascinating.

Ben WB8HUR

At 10:46 PM 5/5/02 -0400, WF2U wrote:
>Group,
>
>The Russians didn't build anything similar to the ART-13.  However, they
>manufactured their own version of the BC-348Q, in the 50's. The Soviet
>military nomenclature for their version is US9. I own a specimen which was
>manufactured in 1952 and I have a set of spare  tubes for it  with 1972
>manufacturing dates. The tubes are direct equivalents of the US  metal octal
>types which were used in the -Q model BC-348.  The nomenclature of course is
>Cyrillic on the US9. There are a couple of differences between the original
>BC-348 and the US9: The US9 has all plastic knobs except the band switch,
>the US9 has a fuse for the 24V primary on the front panel (makes sense!),
>next to the dial light dimmer knob. Also, the US9 instead of the 2  1/4"
>headphone jacks, has just one set of banana jacks for headphones. The
>standard Russian headphones have banana plugs, as well as the standard
>military keys. I'll check the screws in the US9 one of these days to see
>whether they were standard US or metric.
>I know for a fact, that in the 60's the original dynamotors in the US9 were
>later replaced with exact plug-in solid-state inverter power supplies. I'm
>trying to get one of these through my European surplus contacts...
>The Russians also made a VHF transceiver for aircraft (they used them on the
>MIG-15's, 17's and 19's) which was not an exact copy - I don't remember the
>Soviet military nomenclature right now  -  but still quite similar to the
>SCR-522, similar enough to clearly see the heritage...
>
>73, Meir WF2U
>
>  -----Original Message-----
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>Sent:   Sunday, May 05, 2002 8:56 PM
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>Subject:        Re: [Milsurplus] Re B-29 HF Radios
>
>John & the gang -
>
>John Young wrote:
> >
> > The standard HF during early missions to Japan was the BC-348 and
>T47/ART-13.  See the Soviet copy of the B-29 (TU-4) which had exact copies
>of these HF units based on three B-29's which landed in Soviet territory.
> >
>
>   I have seen BC-348s with cyrillic legends on the front panel, and
>always took these to be Lend-Lease items of U.S. origin.
>
>   Did the russians actually build their own ART-13s???
>
>73
>Dave Ross    N7EPI    [email protected]
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