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Originally Posted by Graham Boak
Franek, the Pe 2.
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Pe-2 and following Tu-2 were indeed called dive bombers, but they were as dive bombers as He 177 was. Those were not aircraft able for perpendicular dives, and I would say that if they dived it was something quite shallow. Similarly, Il-2 was not capable to dive, and Soviets had no dive bombers in a sense discussed here.