About the book: 2013 / Being the only great power that came to the end of the Second World War without its own jet aircraft, the USSR did not remain in the role of catching up for long. Despite the devastation and post-war crisis in aviation production, the Soviet defense industry was able to carry out a real jet revolution in the shortest possible time, not only eliminating the backlog in the aircraft arms race, but also bringing our Air Force to the forefront of technical positions. Already in 1947, serial production of the world-famous jet aircraft began the MiG-15 fighter, which during the Korean War proved that it is at least not inferior to the latest American developments, and in some ways even surpasses them. This success was consolidated in subsequent years, when such truly revolutionary fighters in technical terms as the MiG-17, MiG-19 and MiG-21 took to the air. Even many Western experts admit that by the end of the 60s, the USSR became the world leader in the creation and mass production of combat aircraft. This book is a detailed story about the great aviation era, the history of the birth and development of the invincible jet aviation of the Soviet Union.