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THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD III
By 4 February 1944 the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts had regrouped and were beginning to close in on Eighteenth Army again. Army Group North informed the OKH that Meretskov had massed one strong force and 200 tanks southwest of Novgorod, and Govorov was assembling another east of Samro Lake thirty miles off the Eighteenth Army left flank. They obviously could…
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Sukhoi Su-11 (1947)
Since the Su-9 was first proposed as a TR-1- powered fighter, things had come full circle. The airframe and guns were unchanged from the Su-9, only the Su-11 ‘s engine nacelles and position on the wing had been altered to any visible degree. The Su-11 (also known as ‘Izdeliye LK’…
SUKHOI Su-7B
Sukhoi Su-7 BKL NATO reporting names: Fitter-A and Moujik Type Single-seat ground attack fighter. Programme The first prototype of this single-seat fighter, designated S-1, was flown for the first time by test pilot A G Kochetkov on 8 September 1955, and was displayed in prototype form in the flypast over…
STALIN’S GENERAL: SAVING MOSCOW
Ìàðøàë Ã.Ê.Æóêîâ âûñòóïàåò, ñòîÿ íà òðèáóíå. With his recall to Moscow Georgy Zhukov’s moment had arrived. The impending battle for the Soviet capital would either bolster or demolish his reputation; much more importantly it would determine the fate of Operation Barbarossa—Hitler’s attempt to conquer Russia in a Blitzkrieg invasion designed…
1942: Attack and Counter-Attack
‘We still need to assimilate the experience of modern war … neither here, nor today will the outcome of the war be decided. The crisis is yet far off.’ MARSHAL SHAPOSHNIKOV, DECEMBER 1941 The dramatic reversal of fortunes at the gates of Moscow encouraged Stalin to make the same premature…
Sukhoi Su-15 Series Part I
In the 1950s the Moscow-based Central Aero and Hydrodynamics Institute (CAHI, often rendered as TsAGI) had refined a configuration for Mach-2 aircraft with a triangular delta wing and swept tailplanes. This shape was used by Mikoyan for the MiG-21 family, and by Sukhoi for the significantly larger Su-9 all-weather interceptor.…