Tairov OKO-7

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OKO-7
Role Heavy fighter
National origin USSR
Designer Vsyevolod Konstantinovich Tairov

The OKO-7 was to have been a heavy fighter produced in the Ukraine region of the USSR in 1940

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Designed to a 1940 VVS requirement for a heavy fighter, the OKO-7 was to have been powered by two I,500hp Shvetsov M-90 (Ash-90) or two 1,380hp Mikulin AM-37 engines, with armament of three 20mm ShVAK cannon and two 7.62mm ShKAS machine-guns. The OKO-7 was Tairov's last known design before he was killed in an air crash in December 1941.

Specifications (OKO-7)

Data from Gunston, Bill. "Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875-1995". London:Osprey. 1995. ISBN   1-85532-405-9

General characteristics

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