The Soviet Airforce Versus The Luftwaffe
A.D. Harvey assesses the role of the Soviet Air Force in the defeat of Nazism.
Soviet Russia, having invested lavishly in military aviation, had the most powerful air force in the world in the mid-1930s, in terms of both numbers and technical excellence. The Tupolev TB-3, first flown in 1930, was the world’s first monoplane four-engined bomber and the only one at the time in series production; the Polikarpov I-16 was the world’s first monoplane fighter to have retractable undercarriage.
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