"Donkey" versus messer

In the Soviet Union, a stupid short aircraft, who received the chickle with the picker Ashak, became a real symbol, as it seemed, the disadvantaged military power of the country. The characteristic silhouette of the I-16 tens of thousands of people saw at aviation parades, he was portrayed on postage stamps and propaganda posters. In Nazi Germany, the brainchild, Willie Messe Schmitt, was also a symbol of the growing rsets of the Third Reich and the invincibility of its air force - Luftwaffe. In this book, on the basis of declassified archival documents, memories of eyewitnesses and other sources for the first time, the most detailed history of creating, testing, production and combat paths of two cult combat vehicles into the most little-known period - before the beginning of World War II. Special attention was paid to the confrontation of two cars in the sky of Spain during the civil war in this country (1936-1939)