PE-8 (other designations TB-7 and ANT-42) — Soviet four-engine long-range heavy bomber (sometimes classified as strategic) during the Second world war. The aircraft was developed as a high-speed high-altitude long-range heavy bomber. The principles laid down in its basis made it possible to use the aircraft for military transport purposes: transportation of cargo and personnel (50 people with full equipment) at a range of up to 2000 km. According to the composition and location of the airborne small arms defensive aircraft refers to the then existing conditional category "flying fortress", by analogy with the American bomber Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead[]
A large squad of Petlyakov PE-8 bombers apepar at the end of the mission Return where they fly over the play as the camera pans into the distance.
Trivia[]
- Combat use of PE-8 was discontinued at the end of 1944 years due to the inability to operate the aircraft from unpaved airfields. Despite this he emerges in game, in 1945.