Description: From the foundation of the Soviet Vozdushno-Desantnikh Voisk (VDV) airborne forces in the 1930s an early consideration was the development of heavy weapons to ensure the ability to seize and hold ground until reinforced. In the post-war era, Soviet VDV airborne forces fielded an array of purpose-designed armoured vehicles that provided a level of f
Brief description: James Kinnear was born in Scotland and graduated from Aberdeen University in 1982. He first visited the Soviet Union as a young teenager during the Cold War era and subsequently lived and worked in the Russian Federation and the other former Soviet republics throughout the three decades that followed the break-up of the Soviet Union. James has written hundreds of articles on Soviet and Russian military technology for the usual defence analysis suspects, and has published books on the subject with Barbarossa, Canfora, Darlington, Osprey and Tankograd. This is his first book for Helion.