Missing Short Stirling over Poland?

[Stig Jarlevik]

Originally Posted by FrankieS

Stalin tasked Tuppavare with cloning the Stirling and Soviet industry was to produce 47 copies of the aircraft in just two years. The three Stirlings were flown to Moscow and delivered into Tuppavare OKB. One Stirling was fully dismantled, down to the smallest bolt, the second was used for flight tests and training, and the third one was left as a standard for cross-reference.
FrankieS

This cannot be correct
By the time the single Sterling arrived to USSR nobody wanted it. It had departed from UK
in Feb 1945 and arrived via Iraq in March. (SOC by RAF in March 1945)

It was more or less dumped into the hands of the Polar Aviation Division and when a British mission
arrived to help with the introduction during the Spring 1946 it was finally taken into service,
but little used.

What was Tuppaware OKB? Never heard of it. Why would anyone build 47 useless Sterlings postwar?
Makes no sense what so ever.

Cheers
Stig

[udf_00]

https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-...ling-in-russia :
"The Tuv-75P was a planned produce cargo development using non-strategic materials, with high content of plastics in its construction, based on a Soviet theory of keeping produce fresh by storage in plastics."

keeping produce fresh by storage in plastics courtesy of Tuppa'ware : don't you get it brotha' ????

[Stig Jarlevik]

Originally Posted by udf_00

https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-...ling-in-russia :
"The Tuv-75P was a planned produce cargo development using non-strategic materials, with high content of plastics in its construction, based on a Soviet theory of keeping produce fresh by storage in plastics."

keeping produce fresh by storage in plastics courtesy of Tuppa'ware : don't you get it brotha' ????

Jesus what crap on that site.
Tuppa'ware is Tupolev and the "47 Tuv-4" are presumably Tu-4 of which a lot
more than 47 was built (1296 to be exact)
It had nothing to do with the Sterling what so ever (being a B-29 copy)
The Tuv-75P was the Tu-75 of which one was built
Not a single source mentions any derivative called Tu-75P. Can I have a Russian source for that please?
Cheers
Stig