{"id":830821,"date":"2026-05-12T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/antonov-a-40-flying-tank-glider-1942\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:36:42","slug":"antonov-a-40-flying-tank-glider-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/antonov-a-40-flying-tank-glider-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"The Antonov A-40 \u2014 The Soviets Built a Flying Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>It is the kind of idea that should never have left the napkin. Take a small tank, weighing roughly 5.5 tonnes. Bolt on a biplane-style wing and a twin-boom tail. Tow the assembly into the air behind a heavy bomber. Cast it off over enemy lines. Let the tank glide down. Have the crew, sitting <em>inside the running tank<\/em>, jettison the wings on landing and drive into combat.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Antonov A-40 \u2014 also known as the Krylya Tanka, &#8220;Tank Wings&#8221; \u2014 and the Soviet Union actually built it. It actually flew. Once.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f6f8;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.65\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333\">Quick Facts<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Designer:<\/strong> Oleg Antonov (later founder of Antonov Aviation Design Bureau)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Tank base:<\/strong> T-60 light tank, modified<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Wing:<\/strong> Biplane configuration, ~18 m span, twin-boom tail<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Total weight:<\/strong> ~7.8 tonnes<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Tow aircraft:<\/strong> Tupolev TB-3 four-engine heavy bomber<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>First (and only) flight:<\/strong> 2 September 1942, Bykovo airfield, USSR<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Test pilot:<\/strong> Sergei Anokhin<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Outcome:<\/strong> Tow aircraft overheated; A-40 cast off early, glided down, landed safely<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Problem Looking for an Idea<\/h2>\n<p>By 1941, the Soviet Union had a partisan-supply problem. Operating behind German lines required either parachute-dropping individual soldiers (slow, dispersed) or landing transport aircraft on hastily-cleared strips (suicidal). What partisan forces actually needed were vehicles \u2014 small, armoured, mobile vehicles that could go directly from airdrop to combat.<\/p>\n<p>Oleg Antonov, then a 36-year-old glider designer who would later run the Soviet Union&#8217;s premier transport-aircraft bureau, proposed the obvious-once-you-saw-it solution. Make the tank itself fly.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Aircraft<\/h2>\n<p>The A-40 paired a stripped-down T-60 tank \u2014 turret retained, ammunition reduced, fuel limited \u2014 with a detachable wing\/tail unit. The wings were big: nearly 60 feet across, biplane configuration, fabric-covered, very simple. A twin-boom empennage gave control surfaces a long arm. The tank&#8217;s tracks were the landing gear. The tank&#8217;s driver was the pilot, sitting in the normal driver&#8217;s seat and operating the glider&#8217;s controls through a converted yoke.<\/p>\n<p>The intended sequence was elegant. A heavy bomber would tow the assembly to altitude, head deep into enemy territory, release the A-40 on a glide path toward partisans below. The tank would glide down, touch its tracks to the ground, slow to a stop, the crew would jettison the wing assembly with a mechanical release, and the tank would drive off to fight.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Flight<\/h2>\n<p>On 2 September 1942, test pilot Sergei Anokhin climbed into the driver&#8217;s compartment. A Tupolev TB-3 \u2014 four engines, slow, draggy, and the largest tow aircraft in the Soviet inventory \u2014 wound up its engines and pulled. The A-40 lifted off. It actually flew.<\/p>\n<p>And then the TB-3&#8217;s engines started overheating. The combined drag of the tank-with-wings was simply too much. The tow pilot, watching his oil-temperature needles climb past the red, told Anokhin he was being released. Anokhin cast off and glided down. He landed in a field, applied the brakes (the tank&#8217;s tracks were now his rollout brakes), came to a stop, climbed out the hatch, and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>The wings were never jettisoned, and the A-40 never drove anywhere from where it landed. There was no Soviet tow aircraft powerful enough to drag it operationally. The program was quietly cancelled.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why It Still Matters<\/h2>\n<p>The A-40 is one of aviation&#8217;s great &#8220;what if&#8221; moments. The idea was sound \u2014 an armoured vehicle dropped intact into a battle is a force multiplier \u2014 but the tow technology of the 1940s could not match the ambition. Within a decade, helicopters would solve the same problem more elegantly.<\/p>\n<p>Oleg Antonov went on to design every major Soviet transport aircraft of the post-war era, up to and including the An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft ever built. The A-40 stayed an experiment, a fine entry in the long list of ideas the Soviet Union tested anyway. It flew once. That is more than most ideas like it ever managed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: Antonov Design Bureau archives, &ldquo;OKB Antonov: A History of the Design Bureau&rdquo; (Yefim Gordon), declassified Soviet test reports.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the kind of idea that should never have left the napkin. Take a small tank, weighing roughly 5.5 tonnes. Bolt on a biplane-style wing and a twin-boom tail. Tow the assembly into the air behind a heavy bomber. Cast it off over enemy lines. Let the tank glide down. 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