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Early Soviet Jet Fighters

By Gordon Yefim

Early Soviet Jet Fighters

By Gordon Yefim

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By the end of the Second World War the USA and Great Britain had developed viable jet fighters, even if these aircraft came a bit too late to have a significant impact on the course of the conflict. Germany achieved greater success, using the Me 262 and He 162 jet fighters operationally in the closing stages of the war. In contrast, the Sot Union lagged behind, even though research on turbojet engines had begun in the USSR in the late 1930s. This deficiency was recognized and at the end of the war, captured German jet aircraft and engines enabled the USSR to reverse-engineer the technology. Even so, the USSR struggled to catch up until in 1946, the British Labor government gifted the Sots the latest in propulsion technology, the Rolls-Royce Nene and Derwent V engines. This inexplicable action allowed a much more capable generation of Sot jet fighters to be born and by the end of the 1940s Sot industry had caught up with, and in some respects surpassed the West, in jet aviation.
Because of the Stalinist era in which the first Sot jets were developed, up until now little has been known about the early post-war designs from the design bureaus of Mikoyan, Yakovlev, Lavochkin, Sukhoi and Alekseyev and the background to even relatively well-known types such as the MiG-9, La-9 and YAK-15 is barely documented. Other early jet types, proposals and projects were virtually unknown in the West. This gap is now redressed by the famous Sot aviation historian Yefim Gordon and in his latest work he draws on extensive research in design bureau files, official documents and military archives, many of which have only very recently become available, having been labelled 'Top Secret' for decades.
Product details
Number of Pages:
432
Release Date:
2014-06-03
Publication Date:
2014-06-03
Publisher:
Hikoki Publications
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
190210935X
Weight:
1050 g
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