Early Soviet Jet Fighters Yefim Gordon
Early Soviet Jet Fighters Yefim Gordon By the end of the Second World War the USA and Great Britain had developed viable jet fighters, even if these aircraft came a bit too late to have a significant…
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Early Soviet Jet Fighters Yefim Gordon
By the end of the Second World War the USA and Great Britain had developed viable jet fighters, even if these aircraft came a bit too late to have a significant impact on the course of the conflict. In contrast, the Soviet Union lagged behind, even though research on turbojet engines had begun in the USSR in the late 1930s. Germany achieved greater success, using the Me 262 and He 162 jet fighters operationally in the closing stages of the war.
Even so, the USSR struggled to catch up until in 1946, the British Labor government gifted the Soviets the latest in propulsion technology, the Rolls-Royce Nene and Derwent V engines. This deficiency was recognized and at the end of the war, captured German jet aircraft and engines enabled the USSR to reverse-engineer the technology. This inexplicable action allowed a much more capable generation of Soviet jet fighters to be born and by the end
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