U periodu izmedju dva rata Poljska avio industrija,radila je veoma dobre aparata koji su bili u samom vrhu tog vremena.Jedan od tih primera je  i PZL P 37 Łoś B medium bombarder koji je 1939 bio medju najboljima u svojoj kategoriji.Razvoj projekta zapocinje pocetkom tridesetih da bi prvi prototip pleteo juna 1936.Aparat su pokretala dva motora PZL Bristol Pegasus XIIB.Posadu su sacinjavala cetri clana.U pocetku dolazi do manjih problema,da bi sve brzo bilo otklonjeno,tako da drugi prototip obavlja svoj let 1937.Planirana je bila proizvodnja od oko 180 aparata.Veliko zanimanje za PZL P 37 Łoś B pokazale su mnoge zemlje,medju kojima je bila Jugoslavija,Bugarska,Rumunija,Turska i Grcka.Do izvoza u ove zemlje nije doslo zbog izbijanja rata septembra 1939.
Zanimljiv je podatak da je PZL P 37 Łoś B ucestvovo na avio mitingu u Beogradu 1938.Jugoslavija je bila veoma ozbiljno zainteresovana za nabavku oko 20 aparata ali do toga nikad nije doslo.
Prvi aparati pocinju da se ukljucuju u sluzbu krajem 1938,da bi do pocetka napada Nemacke na Poljsku u operativnoj upotrebi bilo nesto preko 100 aparata.
Tokom rata sa Nemackom biva izgubljeno 27 aparata.Od tog broja 11 biva izgubljeno usled obaranja od strane Nemackih aparata,5 biva izgubljeno od pvo vatre dok ostali bivaju unisteni na zemlji ili u drugim nesrecama.
Nemacka zarobljava 41 aparat po okoncanju sukoba.27 aparata sa Poljskom posadom uspeva da prebegne u Rumuniju gde i ostaju uprkos protivljenju Poljske vlade u  izbeglistvu da im se vrate.
Ti aparati bivaju ukljuceni u Rumunsko vazduhoplovstvo i ucestvuju u napadu na Rusiju.

Type
   

Medium bomber

Armament
   

3 x 7,7mm KM Wz 33 MG
2.580kg bombload

Engine
   

P.37 Los A - 2 x PZL Bristol Pegasus XIIB 9cyl radial engine 875hp each
P.37 Los B - 2 x PZL Bristol Pegasus XX 9cyl radial engine 925hp each

Weight
   

Empty 4.213kg - Max take-off 8.500kg

Crew
   

4

Speed
   

440km/h

Year of construction
   

1938 - 1939

Quantity
   

120

User
   

Poland  Romania  Germany and Soviet Union

Manufacturer
   

Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze

zanimljiv avion i sjajan prikaz znam nekoga ko bi radio maketu ovog cuda!

To je bio odlican bombarder i steta sto ga nismo kupili kad smo vec o tome pregovarali.

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Jos jedan avion koji ne znam. Odlicna tema, lepo predstavljanje, super fotke.

pa sad ...  avion je bio dobar za 30-te godine ,ali u ww2 je bio opasno zastareo - slabo odbrambeno naoruzan i sa dosta loshim oklopom . brzina s druge strane nije bila dovoljna da pobegne modernim jednokrilim lovcima .....

Daj bre covece- vidi kako je izgledao u isto vreme Bf109? Kakva je bila verzija Bf109D 1945? Letelica je presecena u razvoju. Slab oklop i brzina- a kao da su Lankasteri, B-25 i G4M bili brzi od najbrzih lovaca i imali oklop kao tenk Panter 

Po meni je na pocetku rata ovo bio ubedljivo jedan od najboljih Medium bobardera.Normalno imo je svoje mane i prednosti ali je zaista bio vise nego dobar za to vreme.JU-88 je usao u upotrbu posle njega tako da u tom trenutku   ni Nemci a ni saveznici nisu imali bolji aparat.

Bilo je planirano da prve aparate dobijemo do juna 1940.
Ima li neka fotka ovog aparata sa avio mitinga u Beogradu 1938.

pa taj aparat se i borio protiv Bf-109 d i bf-109 e  . zapravo , mene on mnogo podseca na nesrecnu sovjetsku SB seriju bombardera . u shpaniji su bili uspeshni sve dok su bili brzi od lovaca - sa pojavom prvih bf-109 i boljih PVO topova postaju sve laksi plen - u ww2 su bili kopmpletno zastareli.


 chinjenica je da je koncept brzog bombardera propao u ww2 - ili si imao solidno oklopljene i naoruzane dvomotrce sa lovachkom pratnjom (relativno spore)  ,ili si imao lovce-bombardere .

Mislim da je ovo jedan od razloga zasto PZL nije uzet: http://www.bbsoft.co.yu/aeromagazin/arhiva/aero10/c20.htm

Ko bi ga znao ramone. Cesto su tu u pitanju zakulisne price i spletkarenja, retko razum i logika. Nasa avijacija je puna tih zakulisnih radnji i podmetanja tako da je mozda i ovde slucaj. Ali elem- bar se kod Poljaka dobro pokazao. Ako se ne varam jedan primerak je sacuvan.

Mislim da su samo hteli domaci proizvod umesto da kupe strani, mada mislim da bi Orkan bio i bolji

Nevezano za ovaj projekat bila je planirana nabavka PZL P 37 Łoś B.Da nije izbio rat sigurno bi doslo do isporuke prvih aparata kod nas tokom polovine 1940.

wikipedija tvrdi da :

The Polish Air Force started to receive the PZL.37B in the spring of 1939. On September 1, 1939, it had about 86 PZL.37s in total, but less than a half of those were used in combat. 36 PZL.37Bs were in four bomber escadres of a Bomber Brigade: the 11th, 12th, 16th and 17th escadres (two escadres with nine aircraft each, constituted a group, in Polish: dywizjon; the PZL.37 were in groups X and XV). The rest of the Bomber Brigade aircraft were PZL.23 Karaś. About 50 remaining PZL.37s were in the reserve XX group, training units or in repairs.

Only the PZL.37s of the Bomber Brigade took part in combat. By September 1, they had been deployed to rural improvised airfields, so they were not destroyed on the ground by the Germans in their initial attack on the main Polish airbases. During the Invasion of Poland, from September 4 onward the planes of the Bomber Brigade were attacking German armoured columns in day attacks, forced by the desperate situation to perform this mission for which they were not designed (the original plans to bomb targets inside Germany were quickly abandoned). Most notably, they hampered the advance of the 16th Armoured Corps near Częstochowa and Radomsko. They suffered heavy losses due to lack of fighter protection, especially because they usually operated in units of no more than three aircraft at a time. The last combat flights took place on September 16. During the campaign, the combat units were reinforced with several other aircraft, and about 46 PZL.37s were used in combat. Of Bomber Brigade, ten PZL.37s were shot down by fighters, five shot down by enemy anti-aircraft artillery, two bombed on the ground and a further ten lost in other ways . A number of not fully completed, training or reserve PZL.37s were also destroyed on airfields and in factories (18 PZL.37s were bombed in a reserve base in Małaszewicze and in a factory in Warsaw - Okęcie).

Twenty-six or twenty-seven PZL.37s (17 from the Bomber Brigade and ten training ones) were withdrawn in 1939 to Romania. In October 1940, they were seized by the Romanian government and 23 were next used by the Romanian air force in the 4th Group, consisting of the 76th and 77th bomber escadres. Some were uparmed with four machine guns (the Polish PWU machineguns were still used). About 1/3 were lost in crashes due to lack of experience of Romanian pilots with PZL.37 handling and its high wing loading, and due to engine faults. About 15 were used against the USSR from June 22, 1941. Among others, they first operated in Bessarabia, then they were bombing Kiev and Odessa. Some were lost, mostly due to anti-aircraft fire. Due to a lack of spare parts, the remaining planes were withdrawn from the front in October 1941 and used for training. In April 1944, the 76th escadrille returned to combat, with nine aircraft, but it was withdrawn from the front on May 3, 1944. After Romania joined the Allies, on September 1, 1944, German aircraft destroyed five PZL.37s on a ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL.37_%C5%81o%C5%9B