Название: Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces
Автор: Mikhail Maslov
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Combat Aircraft 95
ISBN: 1846039819
Год издания: 2010
Язык: English
Количество страниц: 50*2
Формат: PDF
Размер: 30,7 mb
The I-15, I-16 and I-153 fighters were the world's first mass-produced fighters. A total of 17,000 Polikarpov fighters had been manufactured by the time their series production was terminated in 1941. Aircraft of the first series successfully operated in Spain with the Republicans during the civil war (1936-39), in Chinese hands against the Japanese (1937-38), and then with the Soviet Red Air Force again against the Japanese in Mongolia during the Nomonhan Incident (1939). Russian-flown fighter also saw action against the Finns in 1939-40 during the Winter War.
