Vladimir Kotelnikov
Autore di AIR WARS OVER KHALKHIN: Nomonhan Incident
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Opere di Vladimir Kotelnikov
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Котельников, Владимир Ростиславович
- Altri nomi
- Котельников, В. Р.
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Russia
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 64
- Utenti
- 130
- Popolarità
- #155,342
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 15
- Lingue
- 3
Be that as it may, Kotelnikov begins his examination of the Russian airborne troops with the personage of one Pavel I. Grokhovskiy, an adventurer who found his way into the Soviet Communist Party, became associated with Soviet military aviation, and then became obsessed with parachutes, before becoming involved with creating airborne troops (Kotelnikov is a little unclear about how much this was Kotelnikov's initiative). From there, this work becomes something of a handbook, as there are many short chapters dealing with such specific things as parachutes, clothing for parachutists, the recruitment of parachutists, the modifications made to various aircraft to make them useful in the air assault role, and so on, and so forth.
Apart from that, much this book is devoted to the main issue that faced the nascent Soviet airborne force; viable aircraft. Much of the work was done with Tupolev TB-3 bomber aircraft, and much was hoped from the next generation of Soviet "giant" aircraft, but these were all dead ends. Soviet military aviation did not get access to Western transport aircraft until it was too late to matter.
Still, Kotelnikov's accounts of the great show maneuvers that these troops participated in are quite fascinating, and they were so perfectly stage-managed you can see how men like Kurt Student (father of the German airborne effort), were given ideas.
Kotelnikov wraps up this work the contributions of Soviet airborne force to Soviet operations from 1939 to the onset of Barbarossa.
As for Pavel Grokhovskiy, he met the fate of many a Soviet military innovator of the time, dying while incarcerated in the GULAG system.
In closing, I thought this was a useful book, particularly regarding the nuts-and-bolts foundation of the force.… (altro)