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 Название: Fighter Aces: Knights of the Sky
Автор: John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville
Издательство: Casemate
Серия: Casemate Short History
ISBN: 1612004822
Год: 2017
Страниц: 161
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics.
Just over a decade after the first successful powered flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more aircraft took to the skies, their pilots began to develop tactics to take down enemy aviators. Though the infantry in their muddy trenches might see aerial combat as glorious and chivalric, the reality for these ‘Knights of the Sky' was very different and undeniably deadly: new Royal Flying Corps subalterns in 1917 had a life expectancy of 11 days. In 1915 the term ‘ace' was coined to denote a pilot adept at downing enemy aircraft, and top aces like the Red Baron, Rene Fonck and Billy Bishop became household names. The idea of the ace continued after the 1918 Armistice, but as the size of air forces increased, the prominence of the ace diminished. | |
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Название: Lockheed A-12: The CIA’s Blackbird and other variants
Автор: Paul F Crickmore, Adam Tooby
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Air Vanguard 12
ISBN: 978 1472801135
Год издания: 2014
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 65
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 2,5 MB
During the early years of the Cold War, the most effective way to gather strategic intelligence about the Soviet Union and its allies was manned overflight. Lockheed’s U-2 was spectacularly successful in this role, however, much to the concern of US President Eisenhower, its shape meant that it could be tracked on Russian radars. Given the highly sensitive nature of such flights, the President insisted that every effort should be made to reduce to zero the U-2’s radar cross section (RCS), thereby making the aircraft invisible. When this was proven to be impossible, the stage was set for a U-2 replacement. Following a competition between Lockheed and Convair, the former was declared the winner and the result was the A-12. Designed to incorporate ‘stealth’ features before the term was even coined, the A-12 has to date proven to be the fastest, highest flying jet aircraft ever built. This book will also cover a two-seat variation of the design built as an advanced interceptor – the YF-12.
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Разместил: grumm 12-02-2019, 12:36 | Комментарии: 0 | Подробнее
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Название: La-5/7 vs Fw 190: Eastern Front 1942-45
Автор: Dmitriy Khazanov
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Duel 39
ISBN: 978 1849084734
Год издания: 2011
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 81
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 2,7 MB
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.
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Разместил: grumm 12-02-2019, 12:02 | Комментарии: 0 | Подробнее
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Автор: С.Дробязко, А.Каращук
Название: Вторая мировая война 1939-1945 гг. Восточные добровольцы в Вермахте, полиции и СС
Издательство: М.: Астрель, АСТ
Год: 2000
Формат:PDF
Страниц: 47
Размер: 26,7 Мb
Язык: русский
Книга в научно-популярной форме рассказывает об эстонских, латвийских, литовских, беларуских и украинских добровольных формированиях, принимавших участие во Второй мировой войне в составе вооруженных сил нацистской Германии. Издание выделяется исторической достоверностью, объективностью подхода к описываемым событиям, новизной и полнотой привлеченных архивных документов и печатных материалов, содержит много уникальных фотографий и цветных иллюстраций | |
Разместил: Vajaragnju9 12-02-2019, 11:47 | Комментарии: 0 | Подробнее
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Название: Republican Roman Warships 509-27 BC
Автор: Raffaele D’Amatot
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey New Vanguard 225
ISBN: 978 1472808271
Год издания: 2015
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 49
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 7,5 MB
The birth of the mighty Roman Navy was anchored in the Romans' extraordinary ability to absorb and perfect the technology of other states and empires. This is the story of the design, development and operation of the Republican Roman warship in the age of the conquest of the Mediterranean, from the first Roman naval adventure of 394 BC and the Punic Wars, to Pompey's operations against the Cilician Pirates and Caesar's victorious naval campaigns in Armorica, concluding with the consolidation of the Mediterranean Sea as Mare Nostrum with the battle of Actium in 31 BC. Archaeological photography, including those of exciting new finds, such as the Roman warship rosta (rams) found in the Aegates Islands, accompany lavish artistic reconstructions in illustrating the ships of the first Roman navy. | |
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Название: Soviet Conquest: Berlin 1945
Автор: Tony Le Tissier
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147382110X
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Для сайта: Mirknig.su
Размер: 6,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
How did top Red Army commanders see the assaulton Berlin in 1945 - what was their experience of the last, terrible battle of the Second World War in Europe? Personal accounts by the most famous generals involved - Zhukov, Koniev and Chuikov
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Разместил: riga1979 12-02-2019, 09:56 | Комментарии: 0 | Подробнее
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Название: Серия "Во славу земли русской" в 13 томах
Автор(ы): разные
Издательство: Москва
Год: 2003-2008
Страниц: 1000+
Формат: FB2
Размер: 16 Мб
Язык: русский
Серия: Во славу земли русской
Серия исторических романов Во славу земли русской посвящена знаменитым сражениям и битвам, в которых независимо от исхода русская армия показала образцы героизма солдат и офицеров и полководческий талант генералов и адмиралов во все времена нашей тысячелетней истории. | |
Разместил: MIHAIL62 12-02-2019, 09:31 | Комментарии: 0 | Подробнее
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Название: Pan Am at War: How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II
Автор(ы): Mark Cotta Vaz, John H. Hill
Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing
Год: 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5107-2951-3
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 26 MB
Pan Am at War chronicles the airline's historic role in advancing aviation and serving America's national interest before and during World War II. From its inception, Pan American Airways operated as the "wings of democracy," spanning six continents and placing the country at the leading edge of international aviation. At the same time, it was clandestinely helping to fight America's wars.
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Разместил: Gerza 12-02-2019, 09:11 | Комментарии: 0 | Подробнее
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Название: Mons Graupius AD 83: Rome’s Battle at the Edge of the World
Автор: Duncan B Campbell
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Campaign 224
ISBN: 1846039266
Год издания: 2010
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 97
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 12,8 MB
In AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain in an attempt to pacify the Caledonian tribesman. For seven years, the Romans marched and battled across what is now Scotland. Finally, in AD 83, they fought the final battle at Mons Graupius where 10,000 Caledonians were slaughtered from only 360 Roman dead. It proved the high-water mark of Roman power in Britain. Following unrest elsewhere in the empire, the north of Scotland was abandoned and Rome’s forces began their long retreat. Never again would Roman arms stand on the edge of the known world.
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Название: Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II Volume II: (VIII) Fighter Command
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 144
Размер: 25 Mb
Язык: English
Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II Volume II: (VIII) Fighter Command | |
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