The State of Baltic Fleet Aviation in the Pre-War Period and Its Development During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945
https://doi.org/10.56654/ROPI-2025-1(14)-32-53
Abstract
The article analyzes the composition, condition and participation of the Baltic Fleet Air Force in combat operations at sea on the eve and during the Great Patriotic War. The scientific goal of the work is to study the role and importance of the aviation component of the fleet in conflicts and wars at the turn of the 1930s-1940s, the actual quantitative and qualitative state of the aviation of this fleet, the results of its combat use period of the war, comparison of the flight performance characteristics of aircraft types – participants in the confrontation in the Baltic naval theater of military operations. The results of the study indicate serious omissions of the country s leadership and military command in properly equipping naval aviation with modern ones for the turn of the 1930s-1940s by plane. Military-historical experience of the formation and combat use of naval aviation during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 has great practical significance for the modern renewal of the Navy Air Force, further increasing the defense capability of the Russian Federation.
About the Author
D. A. Bochinin
Independent Researcher
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry A. Bochinin, DSc (Mil.), Associate Professor, Independent Researcher
Saint-Petersburg
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Bochinin D.A. The State of Baltic Fleet Aviation in the Pre-War Period and Its Development During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Russia: Society, Politics, History. 2025;(1(14)):32-53. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.56654/ROPI-2025-1(14)-32-53
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