Word: stormovik
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...Berlin area are Finow, Oranienburg and Strausberg. Each of these fields and most of those in the southern triangle boast at least a squadron of jets. On all the fields there are also fairly heavy concentrations of Russian fighters of older types, as well as light bombers, Stormovik dive bombers, transports and training planes. Many of the new concrete runways are being built with subsurface layers from 16 to 24 inches deep. The old Luftwaffe runways are to be lengthened to at least 6,500 and usually 8,000 feet, which will be adequate to the needs of the Reds...
...crinkle-eyed pipe-smoker in the Kremlin appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...
...word Stormovik does not refer to a particular aircraft design but to a class of aircraft-"storming" planes-of which the Iliushin is simply the best and best known...
...related types which the Russians call Stormoviks and the Germans "Black Death." Slow, cumbersome, low-ceilinged, the Stormovik is heavily armored. Its primary job is tank and fort-busting, which it accomplishes with eight rocket bombs under each wing, two heavy cannon, four machine guns...
...Death Is Made. The Russians are justly secretive about their aircraft plants. Since the war began, probably no more than a dozen non-Russians, including WPB's Donald Nelson (see p. 20) have been allowed inside. But Soviet newspapers received in the U.S. last week cautiously described a Stormovik factory...