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: It was so fast that it could often outrun German Messerschmitts, a rare feat for a bomber.

: Its handling allowed pilots to be exceptionally accurate, with some famously able to "plant a bomb down a chimney stack". : It was so fast that it could

In 1937, legendary engineer was arrested during Stalin’s Great Purge for allegedly delaying design work. While imprisoned in a sharashka (a secret laboratory within the Gulag system), he was ordered to design a high-altitude heavy fighter called the VI-100 . : It was so fast that it could