ROLLING THUNDER - Softcover

Boyd, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440550521 ISBN 13: 9780440550525

Verlag: Delta, 1976

Inhaltsangabe

To the victor in the skies...
Jet aviation began as a dynamic, if underutilized, part of a desperate race between Hitler's scientists and the Allies.  Today it is an indispensable component of warfare: space-age machines, incredibly skilled pilots, and weaponry that thinks for itself.  Today's top guns strap themselves into electronic crammed cockpits, hurtle billion-dollar aircraft against concussive G-forces, evade radar behind electronic cloaks, and fire weapons with deadly pinpoint control.  In this dramatic, action-packed history, we witness Allied propeller planes dog-fighting German Me 262 jets at the end of World War II; America's first jet aces making kills in Korea; the Israeli Air Force's stunning victory against its Arab neighbors and Soviet planes; and the feat of the British Harrier force in the Falklands.  From Vietnam to the Gulf War, Rolling Thunder tells a story of tactics, innovations, breakthroughs, and battles, as fighting men and machines push each other to the edge--and beyond...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Delta
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1976
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0440550521
• ISBN 13: 9780440550525
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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