Pe-2VI fighter and Pe-2VB bomber variants, V.M.Petlyakov

In very beginning of the war V.M.Petlyakov was working on two high altitude developments of the Pe-2 aircraft. Both fighter (Pe-2VI) and bomber ( Pe-2VB) were equipped with pressurized cabins.

Blueprints and mockups were ready, further development stopped during evacuation.

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References	Links
"History of aircraft construction in the USSR", Vol.2 p.160;	Pe-2 at Watson's Military Pe-2 at Virtual Aircraft Museum Pe-2 at Michael Fletcher's Site; PB-100, Petlyakov Pe-2, Petlyakov DOO Flightsimulator page by Oleg Devjatkin; Soviet female pilots on WWII by Rolando Silva