The book gives the full story of how the Soviet Union\'s most potent strategic bomber, the Tupolev Tu-160 (known to the Western world as the Blackjack) was designed, built and put into operational service....

Conceived in the early 1980s to ease the threat posed by the American ATF program, these fighters were developed as the Soviet Union\'s fifth-generation fighters. This book gives a detailed account of how Russia\'s two leading fighter aircraft designers competed for the order and how a third contender never made it to the hardware stage....

The Soviet Union\'s ubiquitous and versatile helicopter, first flown in 1961 and still in production, and which has served worldwide and participated in many conflicts and in many roles, is fully documented here from first-hand Russian sources, with much fresh information and photos....