Soviet/Russian Aircraft Weapons Since World War Two

by Yefim Gordon

Among the best-selling aviation titles of recent years have been Midland's Lutwaffe and British Secret Projects series. Soviet secret projects now come under the spotlight. This first volume covers bomber concepts from the various design bureaus from the 1940s onwards. Many unusual and sophisticated aircraft are featured in these pages, allowing comparisons between what the Soviets were working on and what was being produced in the West during that period.

Genres: Military Fiction

207 pages, Hardcover

First published May 13, 2005

About the author

Yefim Gordon is arguably the world's leading Russian aviation researcher. Born in 1950 in Vilnius, Lithuania, he graduated from the Kaunas Polytechnical Institute in 1972 as an engineer/electronics designer. He has been a resident of Moscow since 1973, when, as a hobby, he started collecting photographs and books on the history of Soviet aviation; this has now developed into a major archive. Since the 1980s he has been a professional aviation journalist and writer, with over 50 books published on Soviet/Russian aviation in Russian, English, Polish and Czech, as well as close to 100 magazine features and photo reports. He is also an accomplished photographer, with countless photos published in the Western press; the current edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft features more than 50 of his photographs

Reviews

[Igor Ljubuncic · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is probably the most comprehensive and complete work on Soviet and Russian air forces ever published, and definitely ones that I've read. It offers a unique and highly detailed insight into the USSR and Russian weapons and doctrines, engineering ideology, with tons of great pictures, schematics and numbers. Then, it's also written from a non-Western perspective, which makes it even more interesting. It's often too easy to get lost in the sea of Western jargon and expected "good guys bad guys" thing, and you have little to none of that in this book. Yefim also uses language with style, so even if you're not too keen on military, you will still enjoy the way things are presented.

Highly recommended for military and aircraft buffs.

Igor