When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western analysts predicted an overwhelming defeat for the Ukrainian Air Force guessing that its aging collection of ex-Soviet hardware would rapidly crumble in the face of Russians military might. Yet...Daugiau...
Throughout the Second World War, the Luftwaffe demanded faster fighters with improved altitude performance and light bombers able to outpace interceptors. Germanys airframe and aero engine manufacturers used every tool at their disposal to meet thos...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group, ISBN-13: 9781911658092)
Dozens of top secret bomber designs were drawn up by the Germans during the Second World War, including gigantic flying wings, sleek jet bombers, asymmetrical bombers with the cockpit and weapons turrets on the ends of their wings and even enormous c...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Jan-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group, ISBN-13: 9781911704294)
The start of Space Shuttle operations in 1981 marked a new era in spaceflight with the five orbiters launching numerous satellites, interplanetary probes and the Hubble Space Telescope. But Shuttle was only partially reusable, its external fuel tan...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-May-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group, ISBN-13: 9781911658962)
Chosen in 1941 to replace the Bf 109 as the Luftwaffes standard front-line fighter, Messerschmitts innovative Me 309 embodied a wealth of hard-won experience from the Battle of Britain. Its sturdy tricycle undercarriage would make landings safer, i...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Sep-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group, ISBN-13: 9781911704058)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
There are many myths surrounding the development of the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. Its unparalleled performance is beyond doubt; easily able to outpace its opponents and possessing the firepower to shred them in seconds....Daugiau...
When it appeared in the skies over Europe in 1941, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A was the best fighter in the world. It was more than a match for the best Spitfires the RAF could field and began shooting them down in ever-increasing numbers. Only the introd...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Apr-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group, ISBN-13: 9781911658108)
The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park cracked the German Enigma code but how did the information they deciphered win the war? Breaking the Luftwaffe shows how the deciphered messages, known as ULTRA intelligence, informed almost every move of the USAAF...Daugiau...
The history of the Luftwaffes last minute single-jet fighter, the Heinkel He 162, is neither standard nor straightforward. Originally conceived as the jet fighter anyone could fly into combat, the He 162 was designed and built in under five months -...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jul-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group, ISBN-13: 9781911658085)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Germanys air ministry was quick to grasp the potential of the jet engine as early as 1938 and by 1939 several German aircraft manufacturers were already working on fighter designs that would utilize this new form of propulsion.Rocket engines too wer...Daugiau...
The story of the Messerschmitt Me 109s ultimate development, the Blohm & Voss BV 155, begins in 1942 with plans to split the Me 109 family into three branches a standard fighter, a high-altitude fighter and a carrier-based fighter. Initially t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Nov-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group, ISBN-13: 9781911658047)
A selection of exciting, intriguing and thoroughly researched stories from the last days of WW2. As British and American forces closed in from the west, the Russians pushed in hard from the east, and the RAF and USAAF bombed Germany every nig...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Nov-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mortons Media Group, ISBN-13: 9781911658030)
The West was stunned when the Soviet Union dropped its first atomic bomb in August 1949 and a year later the Korean War showcased Russias incredible technological progress in the form of the MiG-15 - a fighter capable of besting anything the RAF had...Daugiau...
Updated to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, D-Day Overlord tells the full story of the invasion, with detailed accounts of each of the five landing zones on June 6, 1944, the airborne assault and the Normandy campaign that foll...Daugiau...
