Tairov Ta-3
| Ta-3 | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Type | |
| National origin | Soviet Union |
| Manufacturer | OKO (Kiev) |
| Designer | Vsevolod Konstantinovich Tairov (ru) |
| Number built | 4 |
| History | |
| First flight | 31 December 1939 (OKO-6) |
The Tairov Ta-3 was a twin-engined single-seat heavy fighter designed and produced in the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union from 1939. The Ta-3 was envisioned to serve primarily as an escort fighter. Competing contemporaneous designs in the USSR included the Grushin Gr-1, Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS and Polikarpov TIS.