Profiles of planes and pilots, with a history of their service and how they are used in the Blood Red Skies game.
As the Soviet noose closed on Budapest, the Hungarian Air Force fought a desperate battle for survival, one that would play a pivotal role in the siege. Following the Treaty of Trianon in the bitter aftermath of the First World War, Hungary found itself on the brink of collapse – while it retained a solid…
Armed with the exceptional Fw-190A, Jagdgeschwader 54 swept the skies of Soviet aircraft during Barbarossa and fought till the bitter end in defence of the Reich. Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54) began its illustrious career flying Bf109s over Poland and France, operating in support of bomber formations, conducting long-range fighter sweeps to establish air superiority over…
The Bf110 is now available to pre-order for Blood Red Skies. This week, we’re looking at one of the first squadrons to test them in their ground-attack role – Erprobungsgruppe 210! The Erprobungsgruppe (Literally translated as Test Wing) was a small administrative unit created to test experimental aircraft or tactics. Erprobungsgruppe 210 (Erpro 210) was…
To go with today’s special, we’re taking a look at the war in the air in the wintry Skies over Stalingrad! Operation Uranus As winter closed in around the besieged city of Stalingrad, the desperate struggle for control of the city had entered its final stages. The German army had been completely encircled following the…
This week, we’re taking off into the skies over France to take a look at how air power altered the course of the battle! The War in the Air The battle began on 10th May 1940, when the German Panzers gunned their engines and swept over the frontier into Belgium and the Netherlands. While columns…
In this Pilot Profile series, we’ll be looking at each of the ACEs released for Blood Red Skies, their exploits and their abilities in your games, continuing with Royal Air Force ACE Adolph Gysbert “Sailor” Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar As commander of No. 74 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain, Sailor…
In this pilot profile series, we’ll be looking at each of the aces released for Blood Red Skies, their exploits and their abilities in your games. Continuing with German ace Adolf Joseph Ferdinand Galland. 705 combat missions on the Western Front. 104 aerial victories. Survived being shot down 4 times. 1937 During the Spanish Civil…
In this Aircraft Profile series, we’ll be looking at each of the aircraft released for Blood Red Skies, their history and their abilities in your games, continuing with the North American Aviation P-51 Mustang The introduction of the P-51 Mustang could be said to have changed the aspect of the air war in 1944. The…
In this Pilot Profile series, we’ll be looking at each of the ACEs released for Blood Red Skies, their exploits and their abilities in your games, continuing with Japanese ACE Saburō Sakai Sub-Lieutenant Saburō Sakai (25 August 1916 – 22 September 2000), known as the samurai of the skies, was a Japanese naval pilot ace…
In this pilot profile series, we’ll be looking at each of the aces released for Blood Red Skies, their exploits and their abilities in your games. Continuing with Russian ace Lydia ‘Lilya’ Litvyak. Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Лидия Владимировна Литвяк, (August 18, 1921 in Moscow – August 1, 1943 in Krasnyi Luch), also known as Lilya,…
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