Tu-2M (ANT-61M) Powered by two ASh-83 radial piston engines. Tu-2N Engine testbed, built to test the Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet engine. Tu-2 Paravan Two aircraft built to test barrage balloon cable cutters and deflectors. Tu-2R Reconnaissance version. Tu-2RShR Prototype, armed with cannon in the forward fuselage. Tu-2S Powered by two Shvetsov ASh-82FN radial piston engines, 1943. Tu-2S RLS PNB-4 Secretive night-fighter prototype developed under leadership of the NKVD special section of V. Morgunov and P. Kuksenko. Equipped with the Soviet Gneiss 5 (Гнейс 5) radar. Armed with two NS-45 autocannons. Development presumed to have started in 1943. Precursor of the Tu-1. Tu-2Sh Experimental ground-attack version. Two variants were tested in 1944: one with a centerline gun and another with a battery of 88 PPSh-41 submachine guns fixed in the bomb bay, directed to fire ahead at a 30-degree angle. Another version under this designation was tested in 1946; this one had a frontal armament consisting of two NS-37 and two NS-45 autocannons. Tu-2T (ANT-62T) Torpedo-bomber variant based on the Tu-2S, was tested between February and March 1945, and issued to Soviet Naval Aviation units. Tu-2U Trainer version. Tu-6 Reconnaissance prototype, 1946. Tu-8 (ANT-69) Long-range bomber based on Tu-2D, 1947. Tu-10 (ANT-68) It was a high-altitude variant that saw limited service, 1943. Also known as Tu-4. Tu-12 Medium-range jet bomber prototype, 1947. UTB Bomber trainer with Shvetsov ASh-21 engines of created by the Sukhoi OKB in 1946 Operators World War II operators Soviet Air Force Postwar operators Bulgarian Air Force People's Liberation Army Air Force Imported 33 UTB-2 and 29 T-2U trainers at the end of 1949. The last four UTB-2s retired in 1965. Imported 311 Tu-2s from the end of 1949 to 1952. The last 30 Tu-2s retired in 1982. Hungarian Air Force Indonesian Air Force North Korean Air Force Polish Air Force (eight aircraft in 1949-early 1960s) Polish Navy Romanian Air Force (six delivered in 1950: two Tu-2s, two Tu-2 trainers and two Tu-6s) Soviet Air Force Aircraft on display Bulgaria On static display at the Bulgarian Museum of Aviation in Plovdiv. It is a Tu-2T, tactical number 27. China On static display at the Beijing Air and Space Museum in Beijing. On static display at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing. On static display at the Chinese Aviation Museum in Beijing. On static display at the Chinese Aviation Museum in Beijing. Poland Tu-2S on static