Soviet Air Force Fighters Part 2: Green, Swanborough 1978 1st Ed Trade Paperback

Author: William Green, Gordon Swanborough
Publisher: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd.
Pagination: 80
Format: Cardback
Condition: Very Good

 

FIRST EDITION

During the initial phases of the assault on the Soviet Union by Germany's Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe enjoyed almost total dominance in the Russian skies. Fighter opposition from the Soviet Air Force was strictly limited; the majority of fighters encountered by the Luftwaffe was obsolescent and the more modern fighers were flown with a singluar lack of aggressiveness. The fighter element of the Soviet Air Force had been caught at a critical time: it was immersed in a re-equipment programme and inadequetly-developed new equipment were being compounded by the limitations of pilot conversion training. But the ascendency of the Luftwaffe was destined to be short lived. The Soviet Air Force and Soviet fighter designers learned rapidly and in a remarkably short space of time the Luftwaffe found itself opposed by competently-flown fighters, which, if less sophisticated than those of the other major combatants, were nevertheless extremely capable and available in considerable quantities.