Defending Rodinu: Volume 1: Build-Up and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force 1945-1960

by Krzysztof Dąbrowski

When the Second World War ended in 1945 the Soviets had numerous conventional anti-aircraft guns and piston engine fighters in service but with the rapid advances of aviation technology much of this was facing obsolescence. Worse, the war-ravaged country was facing new challenges as the end of the war did not bring a time of universal peace but instead a new rivalry with the West in a Cold War, which could at any time turn hot both figuratively and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915070716
• ISBN13: 9781915070715
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 11.6"