Midland Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 224 p. — (Famous Russian Aircraft). — ISBN-10: 1857802195, ISBN-13: 9781857802191. The MiG-31 Foxhound long-range interceptor flew in prototype form as the Ye-155MP in 1975 and entered production in 1979, with the first regiments becoming operational in 1982. It has also been sold to China, and it remains in service in significant numbers. Yefim...
Midland. — 513 стр. — ISSN (10) 1-85780-211. Английское издательство "Midland Counties Publication" в серии "Red Star" на английском языке публикует монографии российских авторов, посвященные развитию и становлению российской авиации. Для моделистов и интересующихся отечественной авиацией. Большое количество черно-белых фото, схем, цветных иллюстраций.
Midland. — 723 стр. — ISSN 978-1-85780-257-3. Английское издательство "Midland Counties Publication" в серии "Red Star" на английском языке публикует монографии российских авторов, посвященные развитию и становлению российской авиации. Для моделистов и интересующихся отечественной авиацией. Большое количество черно-белых фото, схем, цветных иллюстраций.
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2005. — 131 p. — ISBN10: 1-85780-215-2; ISBN13: 978-1-85780-215-3. The need to ensure effective protection of the Soviet airspace in areas lacking adequate cover by ground radars led the nation's aircraft designers to start working on airborne early warning systems. The Tupolev OKB was the first among the nation's aircraft design bureaus to create...
Midland Publishing, 2004. — 129 p. — ISBN10 1-85780-182-2; ISBN13 978-1-85780-182-8. Information about large transport aircraft produced by Antonov. Antonov's Heavy Transports: The An-22, An-124/225 and An-70.
Midland Publishing, 2004. — 129 p. — ISBN10 1-85780-191-1; ISBN13 978-1-85780-191-0. In the nervous 1950s, the Soviet Union faced the task of defending its borders against intrusions by Western spyplanes and deterring an attack by Western bomber armadas. The mission was to intercept incoming adversaries at long range, which required plenty of engine power, ample fuel and heavy...
Midland Publishing, 2001. — 128 p. — ISBN10 1-85780-121-0; ISBN13 978-1-85780-121-7. The development of Russian military aviation did not end with the collapse of Communism. The Su-27 has seen considerable upgrading in recent years. In effect, all versions of the Su-27 Flanker from the Su-27M onwards can be regarded as a new generation of combat aircraft — by Russian standards....
Midland Publishing, 2005. — 130 p. — ISBN10 1-85780-199-7; ISBN13 978-1-85780-199-6. The need to provide a state-of-the-art jet successor to the ubiquitous An-26 led Antonov to develop a twin-turbo-fan tactical airlifter, the An-72, which made use of the Coanda effect, improving wing lift and field performance dramatically. The prototype flew in 1977, but it was not until the...
Midland Publishing, 2006. — 126 р. — ISBN 1857802368. Introduction The Taganrog Aviation Scientific & Technical Complex named after G. M. Beriyev (the Beriyev TANTK - Taganrogskiy aviatsionnyy naoochno-tekhnicheskiy kompleks) was founded in 1934. Gheorgiy Mikhailovich Beriyev was appointed head of the Central Design Bureau of Seaplane Construction (TsKB MS - Tsentrahl’noye...
Midland Publishing, 2001. — 130 p. — ISBN10: 1-85780-131-6; ISBN13: 978-1-85780-131-8. Aviation historians often dismiss the Polikarpov I-16 because it did not fare well against its more modern adversaries in WWII. It was often referred to in the West by the disparaging nickname of Rata, the Russian word for rat! Nikolay Polyikarpov's I-16 was nevertheless an outstanding...
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2001. — 143 p.; il. — ISBN10 1-85780-139-3; ISBN13 978-1-85780-139-2. This charts the development and service history of the first-generation Soviet jet fighters designed by such renowned fighter makers as Mikoyan, Yakovlev and Sukhoi, as well as design bureau no longer in existence—the Lavochkin and Alekseyev OKBs, during the 1940s and early...
Midland Publishing, 2002. — 146 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-140-7; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-140-8. This volume deals with the entire family of Yakovlev piston-engined fighters from the simple but rugged Yak-1 through the Yak-7, conceived as a trainer but eventually developed into a fighter, and the prolific and versatile Yak-9, to the most capable of the line, the Yak-3 with which even the...
Midland Publishing, 2002. — 120 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-141-5; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-141-5. This book explores the development of Polikarpov's fighting biplanes from the 2I-N1 to his first aircraft to see production; to the I-3 and the I-5 created while the designer was in prison. This design paved the way for the I-15 which earned fame as the Chato during the Spanish Civil War and...
Midland Publishing, 2002. — 130 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-142-3; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-142-2. The Tu-4 is identified as an example of the Soviets copying Western airplane designs. Three Boeing B-29s fell into Soviet hands at the end of World War II. This book shows the evolution of the "Superfortresski" into the Tu-70 military transport and its airliner version, the Tu-75 and Tu-85 -...
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2002. — 130 p. — (Red Star Volume 08). — ISBN 1857801466. The purpose of this book is to show Russia’s role and achievements in the development of ekranoplans, or wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) craft - a new means of transportation which remains a fairly exotic domain to this day. These achievements, quite justifiably, attract much interest in many...
Midland Publishing, 2003. — 130 p. — ISBN10: 1-85780-147-4; ISBN13: 978-1-85780-147-7. This book gives the full story of how the Soviet Union's most potent strategic bomber, the Tupolev Tu-160 (know to the Western world as the Blackjack) was designed, built and put into operational service. The author reveals many unknown aspects of the Tu-160 story, including the development...
Midland Publishing, 2003. — 145 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-151-2; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-151-4. The latest addition to the Red Star series addresses the formation and early years of OKB-301, the design bureau created by Semyon shortly before the outbreak of the Great Pacific War. This book describes in detail all the piston-engined fighters developed by OKB-301 starting with the LaGG-3,...
Midland Publishing, 2003. — 127 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-152-0; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-152-1. This is the story of the Soviet Union's first intercontinental jet bomber, which was to have become a carrier of nuclear missiles and the Soviet answer to the Boeing B-52. Much to the surprise of many, the little-known Myasischev bureau was chosen to do the job; it had been disbanded a few...
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2003. — 127 p. — ISBN10 1-85780-153-9; ISBN13 978-1-85780-153-8. The An-24 was designed in the late 1950s as the Soviet counterpart of the Fokker F.27 in both appearance and capabilities. The twin-turboprop An-24 was produced by three Soviet aircraft factories; many remain in operation. The Soviet Air Force needed a modern turboprop tactical...
Midland Publishing, 2003. — 130 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-160-1; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-160-6. This title describes in detail the first aircraft -- a series of piston-engined fighters — produced by the famous Mikoyan Design Bureau during and immediately after World War II. The first of these, the I-200 of 1940, entered limited production the following year as the MiG-1. This aircraft...
Midland Publishing, 2003. — 130 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-161-X; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-161-3. The Soviet Union's ubiquitous and versatile helicopter, first flown in 1961 and still in production, and which has served worldwide and participated in many conflicts and in many roles, is fully documented here from first-hand Russian sources, with much fresh information and photos. Over the...
Midland Publishing, 2004. — 130 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-180-6; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-180-4. Liquidated on political grounds in 1949, Pavel O. Sukhoi's design bureau was reborn in 1953 after Stalin's death. Two lines of aircraft development were established; one was fighter-bombers and attack aircraft, while the other major area of work was interceptors. The first in this line of...
Midland Publishing, 2004. — 130 p. — ISBN10 1-85780-181-4; ISBN13 978-1-85780-181-1. As World War II drew to a close, the Soviet government was well aware that today's allies would soon be tomorrow's adversaries. This meant new bombers had to be developed for dealing strikes at the potential adversaries' military and political centers. Having gained access to German jet...
Midland Publishing, 2005. — 131 p. — ISBN10: 1-85780-193-8; ISBN13: 978-1-85780-193-4. While Soviet combat aircraft have received extensive coverage, the many UAVs developed in the Soviet Union and, more recently, Russia remain unsung. Nevertheless, this is a subject deserving attention. The first Soviet UAV to find large-scale use was the La-17 developed by the Lavochkin OKB,...
Midland Publishing, 2005. — 129 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-203-3; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-206-1. In the early 1950s a need arose in the Soviet Union for a heavy transport and assault helicopter capable of airlifting cargo weighing up to 6 tons (13,230 lbs) - primarily artillery systems. The chief Soviet "helicopter maker" - OKB-329 headed by Mikhail L. Mil - took on this important task....
Midland Publishing, 2005. — 132 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-216-0; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-216-0. The rapid development of commercial aviation in the 1950s and 1960s, coupled with advancing aircraft technology, led Great Britain and France to pool resources to create the famous supersonic Concorde airliner. As soon as the Soviet government got wind of this program, it tasked the national...
Midland Publishing, 2005. — 130 p. — ISBN10 1-85780-224-1; ISBN13 978-1-85780-224-5. Work started in the autumn of 1943 on a 29-seat modern airliner designed to supersede the Lisunov Li-2. With its tricycle undercarriage, it represented quite an advance over the Soviet-built DC-3. Flight testing began in 1947 and the Il-12 was introduced to Aeroflot's international services in...
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2006. — 127 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-224-1; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-224-5. This interesting survey looks at Russian military aviation in the post-Soviet era. While difficulties with funding means that the large new aircraft programs of the Cold War era are likely to remain things of the past, military aviation in Russia is not standing still. Upgrades to...
Midland Publishing, 2006. — 132 p. — ISBN10 1-85780-228-4; ISBN13 978-1-85780-228-3. When they bought a manufacturing license for the DC-3 in 1935, the Soviet aircraft industry's decision makers had no way of knowing the place the Douglas airliner would come to occupy in aviation's hall of fame. Yet, even less did they know of the part the Soviet spin-off would play in the...
Midland Publishing, 2006. — 129 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-237-3; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-237-5. Английское издательство "Midland Counties Publication" в серии "Red Star" на английском языке публикует монографии российских авторов, посвященные развитию и становлению российской авиации. Для моделистов и интересующихся отечественной авиацией. Большое количество черно-белых фото, схем,...
Midland Publishing, 2006. — 131 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-245-4; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-245-0. Soviet Rocket Fighters covers the fascinating subject of Soviet aircraft designers' efforts to achieve ever-faster speeds by using liquid-propellant rocket motors. This book describes in detail several Soviet attempts at these designs, their testing, and the many difficulties encountered....
Midland Publishing, 2007. — 131 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-253-5; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-253-5. From the late 1940s onwards, the Lavochkin bureau was at the forefront of the Soviet supersonic jet fighter program, and this book covers them all in thorough detail. The first of Lavochkin's jet fighters was the La-15. This was a fantail, single-seat swept-wing jet interceptor fighter, which...
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2007. — 147 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-255-1; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-255-9. In the early/mid-1950s, a new military doctrine evolved in the Soviet Union requiring increased troop mobility. In response, plans were made for modernizing and expanding the Soviet Air Force's military airlift arm to meet the demands of contemporary warfare. The design bureau led...
Midland Publishing, 2008. — 146 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-259-4; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-259-7. As the Cold War grew in intensity in the 1950s, and the first Mach 2 aircraft were produced, Mach 3 was the next objective. In the USSR, the MiG design bureau was given the task of developing the Soviet Union's response to the perceived threat from U.S. Mach 3 developments. The result was the...
Midland Publishing, 2007. — 129 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-265-9; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-265-8. The book examines the development and operational record of the Tu-104 from the early 1950s to the end of its career with the Soviet forces. Detailing in particular, the type's civilian career, the book also examines all of the variants produced from the first version accommodating 50...
Midland Publishing, 2008. — 145 p. — ISBN-10 1-85780-287-X; ISBN-13 978-1-85780-287-0. The Yakovlev Yak-38 Forger was the Soviet Navy's first and only VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) multi-role combat aircraft. Outwardly similar in design to the British-built Harrier, the first prototype of the aircraft was completed on April 14, 1970, and it made its maiden flight January...
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