Чудо-оружие люфтваффе. Битва из будущего. 1945

My attention was attracted by an extraordinary picture: a small plane sitting on top of a large plane. I am perplexed: how did one plane manage to land on another? I'll see what happens next. These two locked planes began to dive straight at us. Suddenly the top plane soars into the sky, and the bottom, large one, flies down in a corkscrew. I flew to the ground, and then there was an explosion of such force that millions of multi-colored sparkles flashed in my eyes. A huge crater was formed; my house could have gone into it. These are the impressions of one of the Soviet officers from the Germans’ use of their “miracle weapon” in March 1945. It just so happens that there are practically no publications devoted to the operations of the Soviet, Allied and German air forces in the spring of 1945. Sometimes one gets the impression that after the Battle of Kursk and the “Stalinist strikes” of 1944, German aviation no longer existed and there was simply nothing to describe there. Meanwhile, some air battles in the last months of the war were not inferior in scale to the Kursk Bulge. And in terms of the amount of new equipment and unusual tactics, they even surpassed previous battles. It was in the spring of 1945, trying to delay its collapse, that the Nazi leadership threw into battle the entire arsenal of the latest weapons it had: jet aircraft, guided bombs, air-to-air missiles, etc. This work collects and systematizes the available information about the most significant operations Nazi aviation of the last stage of the war, starting on March 1, 1945. Particular attention is paid to the Mistel strike systems.

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