Soviet Strategic Aviation in the Cold War Soviet Strategic Aviation in the Cold War shows how the DA's order of battle changed in the period from 1945 to 1991. Major operations including the air arm's involvement in the Afghan War, the Cold War exercises over international waters in the vicinity of the 'potential adversary', and the shadowing of NATO warships are covered together with details of Air Armies, bomber divisions and bomber reg... Full description
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Yefim Gordon was born in 1950 in Vilnius, Lithuania, and 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 80 books published on Soviet/Russian aviation in Russian, English, Polish and Czech, as well as close to 120 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.
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Vendeur : Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Etats-Unis
Hard Back. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Yurgenson, Andrey - Colour Profiles (illustrateur). First Edition. 272 Pages Indexed. Black boards with gold spine lettering. Bottom corners are very lightly bumped (barely noticeable). Otherwise an As New beautiful book with flawless interior text and illustrations. Dust jacket has light wear to top edges. After World War 2 the Soviet Air Force turned from allies to Cold War opponents and it seemed likely that the confrontation might escalate into a hot war. Having taken possession of nuclear weapons, strategic bombers were initially the only means of delivery. The Soviet aircraft design had long-range bomber projects such as the Tupolev 64 and the Myasishchev DVB-102 but to save time it was decided to copy the Boeing B-29 Stratofortress as the Tu-4. Longer-range bombers followed but the jet age soon made them obsolete. This book follows Soviet aircraft development for 50 years until the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. It includes fitting air launched missiles to bombers, the first supersonic aircraft and the 1980's Tu-160 Blackjack which was capable of carrying 12 air-launched cruise missiles. Over 500 photos, most of which are previously unpublished in the West, are supplemented by 61 colour profiles, colour badges and line drawings of the aircraft and their weapons, making this an essential reference source for all aircraft enthusiasts. A companion volume is in preparation which will continue the story from 1991 and present a comprehensive overview of Russian strategic aviation today. N° de réf. du vendeur 15591
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Vendeur : Friends of Pima County Public Library, Tucson, AZ, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Fine. Clean Pages. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0000002033
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Vendeur : Foliation Books, Herefordshire, Royaume-Uni
Dustjacket very good with minimal wear, boards good and internally appears generally clean and good. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1774981440758
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Vendeur : DeckleEdge LLC, Albuquerque, NM, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : new. N° de réf. du vendeur Shelfdream1902109082
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