However, the Tu-14T has one thing that makes it stand out indefinitely from its counterpart. It has the same 23mm frontal cannons, the same tail turret and even the same jet-powerplants in the form of the BK-1. After all, it will be the first jet-powered torpedo carrier in War Thunder! Many players are already famillar with the excellent IL-28 Soviet jet-powered bomber, but now it has a worthy competitor as the Tu-14T is similar to it in many respects. In our game, the Tu-14T is sure to be an in-demand vehicle. In total, around 147 vehicles were built. Series production of the Tu-14T continued until February 1953. Subsequent to this, in 1952 all Tu-14s, including those already produced, received the index T (“torpedonosyets”, EN: torpedo carrier) and continued their service, but this time exclusively as naval aircraft. This meant that the administration of ground troops at the time, gave it preference over the Tupolev vehicle. Nonetheless, the army preferred the Ilyushin IL-28 and accepted into service at roughly the same time. In 1951, the jet powered Tu-14 bomber with its new BK-1 engines successfully passed state tests and was accepted into service. The extra free space in the aircraft’s tail was taken up by a defensive turret.
A little later, OKB Klimov developed the more powerful BK-1 engines on the basis of the British Rolls-Royce Nene and the Tu-14 no longer needed its third engine. For its powerplant, the aircraft used three British turbojet Rolls-Royce engines, as using only two turbojet engines wouldn’t have provided the necessary flight characteristics desired.
Work on project 73 (later known as the Tu-14) at OKB Tupolev began in 1947. The story of the aircraft’s creation is rather long, and it’s all because its competitors, the Tu-14 and the IL-28 became the first series-produced Soviet jet-powered bombers practically at the same time.
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