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Soviet Naval Aviation 1946-1991
Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov. Manchester, UK: Hikoki Publications, 2013. 368 pp. Illus. $56.95.
Reviewed by Norman Friedman
This book is a testament to the different approach to sea power employed by the old Soviet Union during the Cold War.
From the late 1950s on, Soviet land-based naval bombers, armed with stand-off missiles, were at least as great a threat to U.S. carriers as were Soviet submarines.
Most of the U.S. Navy’s surface-to-air armory, and all of its interceptors and radar-surveillance aircraft, were designed to deal with this threat.
Words like “outer air battle” and slogans like “kill the archer, not the arrow” will remind anyone involved in the Navy of that era of what was happening.
Only at the end of the Cold War were the Soviets beginning to deploy carriers and carrier-borne aircraft, and they had not begun to hit their stride when the Soviet Union and its navy collapsed.
If all of this sounds like dry history, remember that the Soviets taught the current Chinese navy its trade and that the Chinese naval air arm is not too different in principle from its Soviet-era predecessor.
Yefim Gordon has demonstrated a remarkable ability to sift former Soviet records and current Russian-language literature to describe the former Soviet air arms in great and apparently very accurate detail.
The book thus takes its place alongside extensive descriptions of the other air arms, all by the same British publisher: 'Soviet Strategic Aviation in the Cold War' (2009), 'Soviet Air Defence Aviation 1945–1991', and 'Soviet Tactical Aviation' (both by Gordon and Komissarov and published in 2012).
Gordon and Komissarov first sketch the organizational history of Soviet naval aviation, which was difficult because some of its elements were drawn off by other components of the multiple Soviet air establishments.
For example, the navy lost its land-based fighters in 1957, and for a time in the 1940s and early 1950s the navy itself had no independent bureaucratic existence.
They then describe its elements: reconnaissance, antiship strike, antisubmarine warfare.
These chapters include descriptions of missions and their difficulties.
The authors add an account of the largely abortive Soviet carrier program, and a substantial chapter describes Cold War incidents (illustrated by both Western and Soviet photos).
The book ends with an extensive catalog of aircraft and weapons.
A great deal of what Gordon and Komissarov provide is new, at least to this reader.
As in Gordon’s other books about the Soviet military air arm, the photographs are excellent.
Gordon and Komissarov are so good that the reader yearns for more.
No Russian has yet described or explained the structure of Soviet programs, for example the trade-offs between different types of equipment and between different services.
Nor has there been any published reference to the development of the big land-based (or space-based) sensor systems created specifically (it seems) to guide aircraft and ships.
For example, during the 1960s the U.S. Navy learned through experience that Soviet naval bombers were directed to its carriers by big land-based high-frequency (HF) direction-finding nets and thus learned to evade attack by shutting down its HF communications.
It seems nearly certain that the anti-Polaris antisubmarine aircraft (the Il-38 May in particular) were conceived as part of a larger system that included a long-range seabed system somewhat analogous to the Western sound surveillance system, but far less successful.
One wonders how these systems and the naval strike aircraft were linked, both in terms of planning and in practice.
Clearly that sort of detail is either still classified or is of so little interest to writers (who generally began as enthusiasts) that it is not available.
It would, similarly, be very interesting to gain insight into the trade-offs between ships and long-range aircraft, particularly now that we know something about the difficult gestation of the Soviet carrier program.
One also yearns for accounts of canceled aircraft and missiles.
Again, it is not clear whether such information is still classified (or is now becoming more rather than less restricted), or whether no interested author has yet emerged.
All of this is of more than academic interest, because a good account of what the Soviets wanted to build would likely offer valuable insight into the way the current Chinese navy and its air arm have been and are being shaped.
It would also give insight into the sorts of systems the Russians are now offering for sale, almost all of which can be traced back to Cold War forebears.
L'Atlantic in foto apparteneva al glorioso 30° Stormo, ora disciolto, ed era di stanza a Cagliari-Elmas.....Vultur ha scritto:.....un nostro Atlantic visti dal Kiev, negli anni ottanta, veramente molto vicini.
Toh ..... si è rifatto vivo .....Atr72 ha scritto:Pura bellezza made in cccp ❤
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