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From the An-22 to An-225, 1965 to the Present
This book charts the development and service history of the Antonov design bureau's heavy transport aircraft. In the late 1950s, the Antonov design bu...
The First Soviet Supersonic Strategic Bomber
The story of Myasishchev's supersonic strategic bombers of the late 1950s, the M-50 and M-52 prototypes....
Heavy-Lift Helicopters
Developed in the early 1950s to meet a Soviet Army requirement and first flown in June 1957, the Mi-6 was the largest-yet helicopter created in the So...
Interceptor
A history of this advanced Russian jet, including useful information for model makers. The MiG-31 started life as an advanced derivative of the famous...
The 'Soviet Sentry'
Brought out in the late 1970s as a successor to the obsolete Tu-126 airborne early warning aircraft, the A-50 co-developed by the Il'yushin and Beriye...
First flown in 1952, the Tu-95--known to the western world as the Bear--had its share of teething troubles with a change of engine type being necessar...
A History of the Design Bureau and Its Aircraft
This book is the complete and definitive history of the famous Sukhoi Design Bureau, from its establishment in 1940 to the present day. Continuing the...
โA good look at the MiG-25 recce birds...Definitely recommended!โโCybermodeler โSpy in the Skyโ matters have long been a source of fascinati...
Containing a lot of hitherto untold facts and shedding new light on the Tu-95's development history and service career, this book is certain to be ext...
The Su-9, Su-11, and Su-15: Unsung Soviet Cold War Heroes
The first 20 years of Sukhoi supersonic interceptor development from the Su-9 and Su-11 to the Su-15 Charts the history of Sukhoi's early supersonic i...
The Boeing Killer
A history of this supersonic Soviet interceptor, including useful information for model makers. In the late 1950s, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, already a...
Features;??* Profiles of iconic types such as the Mil MI-24 'Hind', the Mil-28 and the Kamov Ka-52 'Alligator'.?* Summary of design histories and care...
8-1/2 x 11, 400 b/w photos, 16 pgs of color, plus line drawings...
The First Soviet Strategic Bomber
After World War II, the Soviet Union and the USA, who had been allies in the war, started moving towards political and military confrontation. The Sov...
Soviet/Russian Swing-Wing Heavy Bomber
The only English-language book in print on this active-duty Russian supersonic bomber....
The USSR's Medium-Range Jet Airliner
The Tupolev Tu-154 was one of the most successful and long-lived of Soviet/Russian jet airliners. It was developed in response to the need for a state...
The Sukhoi Design Bureau was tasked in 1969 with developing a fourth-generation heavy fighter and thus began the story of the Su-27, known to the west...
After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union tried to exert its political influence on the Asian continent. A major pillar of this coldโw...
Current Organisation and Aircraft of All Chinese Air Forces
This is the definitive reference source examining all aspects of one of the most powerful air forces in the world, the Chinese. Although China has bee...
The First Soviet Strategic Jet Bomber
When the Myasishchev design bureau was reborn in 1951, it was immediately tasked with creating a high-speed strategic bomber to balance the threat pos...
Early in the 20th century, shortly after military aviation came on the scene, Imperialist Russia started using aircraft to support the operations of t...
Soviet Service During World War II
Under the Lend-Lease agreement with the US during WWII, the Soviet Union received large quantities of war materiel, including many aircraft; the Bell ...
This book provides an in-depth study of the Kamov Ka-27, a military helicopter developed for the Soviet Navy and currently in service in Russia, Ukrai...
Soviet Strike Force Spearhead
Developed as the answer to the American B-1, the Tupolev Tu-160 was the Soviet Union s most potent strategic bomber. Several project versions were rej...
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In the years after World War II, aircraft optimized for various kinds of special missions began assuming ever-greater importance in the inventories of...
By the mid-1950s the export of Soviet arms expanded into the Middle East and were immediately sent to war. Forming the backbone of, amongst others, th...
The first recipient of Soviet military hardware in the Americas was Cuba in 1959. Since then the Cuban Air Force has operated the MiG-15 to the MiG-29...
Following on from the collection of successful ' Famous Russian Aircraft' titles, Yefim Gordon has teamed up with Keith Dexter and Dmitriy Komissarov ...
Since 2001
The Tactical Aviation branch (FA-Frontovaya aviatsiya) has always occupied an important place in the structure of the Soviet, and subsequently Russian...
From the outset, the export of revolution and Communist ideology had been one of the cornerstones of Soviet Russia's (and later the Soviet Union's) fo...
Current Organisation and Aircraft of All Russian Air Forces
A follow up to the hugely popular first publication of Russian Air Power in 2009, Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov bring readers the fully updated ...
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Famous Russian Aircraft
Developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s, the Su-24 tactical bomber has become one of the most successful aircraft in its class. Featuring delta win...
The Il-28 tactical bomber was a success in all its roles. From Torpedo-bomber, reconnaissance, trainer, and mail carrier, numerous specialized version...