Chudo-oruzhie liuftvaffe - Degtev D.M., Zefirov M.V., Zubov D.V.

"My attention was drawn to an extraordinary picture: a small plane sits on a large plane. I am at a loss: how did one plane manage to land on another? I'm watching what happens next. These two clutch planes started to dive right at us. Suddenly the top plane soars into the sky, and the lower, big, corkscrew flies down. I flew to the ground, and then there was an explosion of such force that millions of colorful sequins flickered in my eyes. A hefty sinkhole was formed, my house could have entered it." This is the impression of one of the Soviet officers from the Use of his "miracle weapon" by the Germans in March 1945.
It so happened that there are almost no publications dedicated to the operations of the Soviet, Allied and German air forces in the spring of 1945. there was nothing to describe. Meanwhile, some of the air battles of the last months of the war were not inferior in scale to the kursk arc. And in terms of the number of new techniques and unusual tactics, they even surpassed the old battles. It was in the spring of 1945, in an attempt to delay its collapse, the Nazi leadership threw into battle the entire arsenal of the latest weapons: jets, guided bombs, air-to-air missiles, etc. This paper contains and systematics the available information on the most significant operations of Nazi aviation in the last phase of the war, starting on March 1, 1945. Particular attention is paid to the Mistel strike complexes.