La-5 / 7 vs Fw 190: Eastern Front 1942-45 - Couverture souple

Khazanov, Dmitriy; Medved, Aleksander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849084734 ISBN 13 : 9781849084734

Editeur : Osprey Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

LA-5/7 Vs. Fw 190 "LA-5/7 Vs. Fw 190: Eastern Front 1942-45". Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Soviet fighter aviation suffered terribly at the hands of the Jagdwaffe in the first year of the war in the east, and with the arrival of JG 51 and its Fw 190s on the Stalingrad Front in September 1942 things only got worse for the hard-pressed Red Army Air Force pilots. However, help was on its way in the form of the re-engined LaGG-3 fighter, which was fitted with a powerful air-cooled M-82 radial engine. Designated the La-5, the new fighter was capable of withstanding more punishment than the fragile LaGG-3, and it was also appreciably faster and had a greater rate of climb. It was more of a handful to fly, however, but the new generation of better trained pilots who were led into combat by the survivors of 1941-42 quickly found the La-5 (and, later, the improved La-7) very much to their liking. Arriving in the frontline in August 1942, the new Lavochkin fighters soon found themselves pitted into action on the Central Sector against the equally new Fw 190As of JG 51. The first clashes took place in November of that year, and from then on the Focke-Wulf fighter would regularly clash with its counterpart from Lavochkin.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dmitriy Khazanov is one of Russia's leading experts on the history of Soviet aviation in World War 2. He has written 15 books and a great number of articles, which have been published in Russia, the UK, Germany, Finland, France and Japan. Aleksandr Medved is a retired air force colonel who has written 11 books and a number of articles on the history of Soviet and foreign combat aircraft development in World War 2. Khazanov and Medved have previously co-written a handful of monographs on subjects such as MiG-3 Fighter, Pe-2 Dive-Bomber and Er-2 Long-Range Bomber.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Osprey Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849084734
• ISBN 13: 9781849084734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Illustrateur: Laurier Jim, Hector Gareth, Yurgenson Andrey