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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...
Annushka, Maid of All Work
8 1/2 x 11, 220 color and b&w photosInitially criticized as 'obsolete at the moment of birth' due to its biplane layout, this aircraft has put the ske...
Spy in the Sky' matters have long been a source of interest and fascination for aircraft enthusiasts, historians and modellers and none more so than t...
The MiG-31 Foxhound long-range interceptor flew in prototype form as the Ye-155MP in 1975 and entered production in 1979, with the first regiments bec...
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...
Heavy Lift Helicopters
The Russian-built Mil Mi-24 is one of the best known and most prolific combat helicopter in the world. This volume includes an introductory explanatio...
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...
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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...
By the turn of the century China had reaffirmed its position as one of the world's leading military powers. With much importance attached to fleet ren...
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...
- Covers the development and service history of the Tu-22M, first proposed to the Soviet government as a modification of the existing Tu-22 'Blinder' ...
- Covers the Tu-95 'Bear', a machine with impressive speed--unique in that it combined turboprop engines with swept wings. The aircraft quickly became...
Russia's Versatile Airlifter
A familiar sight both in military and worldwide commercial use, the Ilyushin IL-76 was the Soviet's answer to the Lockheed Starlifter. Compiled by not...
Recognized as one of the best fighters of the 1990s, the Su-27 Flanker is a single-seat supersonic interceptor that is often declared the finest and m...
In the years following World War II, many nations made use of captured German technology, and given the pressures of the incipient Cold War, Soviet en...
Russia's Defensive Front Line
These volumes are packed with authoritative text, detailed photographs & drawings....
Over the years, many new developments have taken place in this particular strand of aviation, both in Russia and in other countries. New projects have...
Soviet/Russian Unreleased Aircraft Projects, 1925-2010
This book surveys all the Soviet/Russian aircraft that either remained โpaper projectsโ (the work progressed no further than the design documents ...
Close Air Support Aircraft
The Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot is one of the world's most effective close air support aircraft and is the only true armored attack aircraft still in produc...
Famous Russian Aircraft
As early as 1979, Soviet aircraft designers started work on a program called I-90, a fighter for the 1990s. Two Soviet aircraft design bureaus took on...
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...
Soviet Combat Aircraft of the Second World War, Volume OneGordon and KhazanovSubtitled: Single-Engined Fighters. Arranged by manufacturer, this author...
The Red Star series concentrates on Russian subjects with similar in-depth text, drawings and photographs, with emphasis on color drawings. All are co...
Detailed review of Soviet experimental aircraft from the early 1900s to the latest Russian prototypes of today. Describes about 150 aircraft types -- ...
Soviet Swing-wing Bomber
The Fencer, with its distinctive three-position variable-geometry wings, is the Soviet counterpart to the American F-111, though somewhat smaller and ...
Russian Fifth-Generation Fighter Demonstrators
Conceived in the early 1980s to ease the threat posed by the American ATF program, these fighters were developed as the Soviet Union's fifth-generatio...
A detailed survey of the jet-powered flying boats produced by the Beriev design bureau from the late 1960s onwards, including the Be-30, Be-32, BE-43,...
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...
The Soviet Polikarpov design bureau is perhaps best known for the I-16 fighter, the world's first monoplane fighter to have a retractable undercarriag...
Alexandr S. Yakovlev was one of the most versatile aircraft designers of his age, but he had the misfortune to work in the USSR which made him almost ...
Multi-role Fighter
Developed to meet the Soviet Union's requirement for a dual fighter and ground-attack aircraft, the MiG-29 entered operational service in 1983. Russia...
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....
Born in the 1930s, the Soviet Air Force's long-range bomber arm (known initially as the ADD and later as the DA) proved itself during the Second World...
During the 1940s, the Soviet government, knowing of the American nuclear program, elected to begin work on its own nuclear weapon program. The goal wa...
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...
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...
MiG Aircraft since 1937 reunites Bill Gunston, and Moscow-based Yefim Gordon, who previously worked together on Yakovlev Aircraft since 1924, also in ...