Why is the time falling on World War II so attractive for the history of aviation? Probably, in the history of the development of technology, there has not yet been a time period in which technical innovations did not progress so quickly and would not be introduced. Countries that entered the war with aircraft that differed little in their appearance from the biplanes of the First World War, light tanks and small arms developed at the dawn of the century, left it with ballistic missiles, jet aircraft, heavy tanks and a nuclear bomb.