This legendary aircraft became one of the main symbols of the Blitzkrieg - it was the Junkers Ju 87 squadron that cleared the way for German tank wedges. This dive bomber terrified the enemies of the Reich. A recognizable predatory silhouette with a “gull-shaped” wing bend, a fixed landing gear with characteristic fairings, for which the Red Army soldiers nicknamed the Yu-87 “laptezhnik”, the maddening howl of sirens that went on before the dive, excellent training of the crews, unsurpassed bombing accuracy - at the beginning of the war this aircraft knew no equal. In general, the fate of the Stuka (the German nickname Ju 87 comes from “Sturzkampfflugzeug” - “dive bomber”), like a mirror, reflected the fate of the Luftwaffe and the entire Third Reich - birth in the mid-1930s, brilliant debut in Spain, triumphs in Poland and France, an unexpected failure in the Battle of Britain, a new rise in the first year of the war on the Eastern Front and a final decline after 1943. Why the life of the famous aircraft turned out to be so short-lived, how the German dive-bomber aces fought, won and died - read in this book, the best study of the combat use of the legendary Stuka