Letaiushchie kreposti Gitlera v boiu. Ural-bomber Ne-177 Graif - Degtev Dmitrii Mikhailovich, Zubov Dmitrii Vladimiro

"Flying lighter," "failed ural bomber," "most revolutionary bomber of World War II," "failed brainchild of Ernst Heinkel," "fatal mistake of Udet" - these are just some nicknames, fixed to the German bomber Non-177 Greif. Ne-177 participated in operations to supply the 6th German Army in Stalingrad, served in the meteorological aviation Luftwaffe, was used in attacks on convoys with cruise missiles and raids on London in the winter - spring 1944. On his combat account - active participation in the battles on the Eastern Front in the summer of 1944. So why did the plane, on which the Nazi leadership and the Luftwaffe command had high hopes of "forcing peace" of likely adversaries: Britain, the Soviet Union and even the United States, was unsuccessful and unreliable? What prevented Greif to replace the FW-200 in the naval war and the outdated Ne-111 bomber on land? How did it happen that the vaunted German aviation industry suffered such a major failure? The book for the first time presents the most complete history of the creation, testing and combat use of one of the most legendary and unusual aircraft of the Second World War.