Air Force Museum in Safonovo

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Engineer Beriev on his own initiative started to design the sea nigh scout MBR-2. It was virtually the only aircraft that the Soviet naval aircraft used for antisubmarine warfare. Among the pilots the plane had the nickname “small barn” and “cow.”
 
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For its first aircraft Beriev chose a scheme of the single-cantilever monoplane with two-step boat, which had a large cross-deadrise. This had to ensure the vehicle good seaworthiness and the ability to take off and land on water with waves up to 0.7 m.
 
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It took only 20 days to pass the tests and the vehicle even managed without the usual in such cases fine-tuning. Compared with the Savoy-62b Beriev flying boat slightly yielded in speed, but excelled in seaworthiness, and takeoff and landing characteristics.
 
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After the elimination of defects the plant produced two series for the military trials, and began mass production of MBR-2 M-17. The release of this version of the flying boat lasted until 1936 and amounted to about 300 vehicles.
 
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The process of manufacturing MBR-2 from the moment of laying before the flyby took 3.5 months. But they didn’t observe the terms. If supply of materials went more or less tolerable, the supply of equipment chronically frustrated. For example, many MBR-2 surrendered without a radio and aerial cameras, with the insurance to send the remainder right at the front side. As a result, the part of the flying boats released in1936-37 was staffed by stations only in 1938!
 
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MBR-2 production discontinued in the second half of 1940. By this time 1,365 machines of all modifications had been made.
 
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When MBR-2 was put to service, they immediately began to use it as an airplane driver of the controlled torpedo boats.
 
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In 1936 MBR-2 began the history of the Air Force’s youngest Soviet Navy – the North. The first flights began only in the summer of the next year, since the water aerodrome in the Dirty Bay managed to prepare only in May 1937 on September 1 of that year, after the receipt of new equipment and personnel.
 
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After rolling MBR-2 on the shore, the boat had to be dried thoroughly and they used lots of ways to do this: the hot sand rolled in blankets, which was applied to damp parts of the aircraft, light bulbs, hot compressed air or cans with hot water.
 
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The first war for the MBR-2 was the conflict with the Japanese near Lake Hassan in July-August 1938. Pacific flying boats were carrying the reconnaissance in the Sea of Japan, on the approaches to Vladivostok and Posiet. Since neither the Navy nor the Air Force of the opponent was involved into the conflict, crews of MBR-2 hadn’t clashes.
After the launch, a number of procedures required that the mechanics had to perform in water, and you know that is the North Sea.
 
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All in all by the end of November, when the war with Finland started, the Air Force CBF had 124 seaplanes (114 of them combat-ready).
When the area of seadroms froze, the military put MBR-2 on skis and were flying from the Army airfields.
 
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MBR-2 was used for anti-submarine cover for Allied convoys bound for Soviet ports.
By 1944 the active use of MBR-2 with Air Force was over.
 
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