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The Tupolev Tu-14 (NATO reporting name: Bosun) (USAF/DOD reporting name: Type 35) was a Soviet twin-turbojet light bomber derived from the Tupolev Tu-73 the failed competitor to the Ilyushin Il-28 ‘Beagle’. It was used as a torpedo bomber by the mine-torpedo regiments of Soviet Naval Aviation between 1952–59 and exported to the People’s Republic of China.