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Soviet Secret Projects: Fighters Since 1945, Vol. 2

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Any reader of military history who wishes to follow the evolution of modern Soviet fighters must look at Soviet Secret Projects: Fighters Since 1945. It provides a powerful military aviation history of the achieved and proposed projects, including designs unknown to the West, and drafted as possible prototypes which never got off the ground. These projects were created by the former Union between 1945 to present and offer not only black and white photos and sketches of projects, but background history into the competition between projects.

Diane C. Donovan

California Bookwatch

as for those of us in the west, most soviet projects tended towards being secret. That said, this book is excellent in every sense. Readable, with three view drawings galore, rough figures, anecdotes, histories of companies and individual projects. Quite excellent in all areas (well, some of us always want more raw data), very few people will find this book anything other than a very worth while purchase, and very worth while read.

I enjoyed reading this book; it had a short "blurb" about many development types and prototypes in the history of Soviet aviation. Almost every subject had at least one picture; some were photographs, some were artwork, some were models. This work is strictly introductory; there were many fascinating types and I would have liked to see more information, but this at least gives a starting point for future research. And if you just want to look at pictures of neat planes, there are plenty in this book for you to look at.

The overall book content is very good but I think the autors were very succinct on projects description.