British and American Aircraft in Russia Prior to 1941 Kotelnikov Vladimir
British and American Aircraft in Russia Prior to 1941 Kotelnikov Vladimir Back in 1906, the Wright Brothers offered their biplane to the Russian Ministry of War, but Tsarist generals were not…
Specifikacia British and American Aircraft in Russia Prior to 1941 Kotelnikov Vladimir
British and American Aircraft in Russia Prior to 1941 Kotelnikov Vladimir
Back in 1906, the Wright Brothers offered their biplane to the Russian Ministry of War, but Tsarist generals were not interested in this aircraft. Their role conceded significantly to the influence of French designs, and under the Provisional Government in 1917 supplies from Britain increased, licences were obtained there for several types that were to be built in Russia. In the course of the formation of Russian military aviation in 1910-1911 the regime began to acquire British and American airplanes in large numbers.
The Red Army had the imported airplanes at their disposal from the stores, as well as aircraft captured from the interventionists and the whites.In the period of the post-war resurgence of Soviet aviation, a considerable number of In the Civil War years the Entente powers supported the Whites and the British sent their Air Force units and supplied aircraft.