However, due to the lack of a sufficiently-powerful aircraft to tow the tank at the required speed of 160 km/h (99 mph), the project was abandoned.

[4] In World War II, Anokhin assumed command of an Air Force regiment in Belarus.

[2] In 1943, Anokhin joined the Flight Research Institute and become the lead test pilot for the first type of Soviet developed jet propelled airplane.

From 1951 to 1953, he along with Amet-khan Sultan, Fyodor Burtsev, and Vasily Pavlov flew manned tests of the KS-1 Komet, for which he was awarded the Stalin prize.

[6] Also in 1964, Anokhin was selected by Sergey Korolev to be the head of a team to train civilian cosmonauts, rather than military that they had been prior.