Boevye vertolety Rossii. Ot "Omegi" do "Alligatora"

Novaya kniga veduschego istorika aviacii. Luchshee issledovanie razvitiya otechestvennogo vertoletostroeniya. Polnaya enciklopediya boevyh vertoletov Sovetskogo Soyuza i Rossiyskoy Federacii. O vintokrylyh mashinah v Rossii mechtali esche so vremen Lomonosova, no pervymi, komu udalos' voplotit' eti mechty v zhizn', stali M.L.Mil' i N.I.Kamov. Sdelav stavku na odnovintovuyu shemu, Mihail Mil' bystro dobilsya uspeha - ego Mi-1MU stal pervym otechestvennym boevym vertoletom, a proslavlennye Mi-8 i Mi-24, s chest'yu vyderzhavshie ispytaniya Afganskoy i Chechenskoy voynami, do sih por sluzhat ne tol'ko v Rossiyskoy Armii, no i po vsemu miru (Mi-8 seychas oficial'no zakupayut bol'she stran, chem legendarnyy avtomat Kalashnikova!). Nikolay Kamov poshel drugim, bolee trudnym putem, sozdavaya vertolety soosnoy shemy, v pervuyu ochered' palubnogo bazirovaniya, stavshie gordost'yu otechestvennogo Voenno-morskogo flota. Eta kniga ne tol'ko rasskazyvaet o sozdanii i boevom primenenii vseh otechestvennyh vertoletov voennogo naznacheniya, no i proslezhivaet evolyuciyu vertoletnogo dela v SSSR i Rossii - ot pervyh proektov nachala 1940-h godov do supersovremennyh Mi-28 i Ka-52, kotorym prinadlezhit buduschee.