Red Assault – Soviet Airborne Forces, 1930-1941

In this book the armament, equipment, and military hardware developed for Soviet airborne troops is described, both in terms of the actual technology, and the clearly fantastical, which only reflected the unrestrained imagination of the designers. A significant amount of attention is devoted to the aircraft, from which it was planned airborne troops would be dropped. The exercises that saw airborne troop drops are described, as well as the role airborne troops played in actual operations in the period up to 1941.  This book has been written on the basis of a number of documents that the author has discovered in the archives, and in museum collections. This work draws upon the memoirs of the pioneer military paratroopers in the USSR, some of which have never been published before.

AUTHOR – Vladimir Kotelnikov
PUBLISHER – Helion
FORMAT – Softback
PAGES – 340
PUBLISHED – 2019
ISBN – 978 1 912390 79 3