Defending Rodinu: Volume 2 - Development and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1961-1991

"...the paranoid nature of Mother Russia is never more clearly on display than in Dabrowski’s book. This work is much more than a modeler’s information source. It is an excellent story of a Cold War that occasionally became very hot and lethal." — The Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation

In the 1950s, the Soviets had managed to grow a major Air Defense Force (PVO) capable of covering the entire airspace of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The PVO was able to fiel...