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Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide (Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide)
by Gunter Endres  Publisher Comments <p> The essential guide to the world's aircraft </p> <ul> <li>Over 500 color photographs</li> <li>Civilian and military aircraft</li> <li>Technical data</li> <li>Recognition silhouettes</li...
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NATO Air-Launched Weapons
by Jeremy Flack Publisher Comments NATO Air-Launched Weapons is a detailed, illustrated guide to every weapon currently carried by aircraft belonging to NATO. This includes weapons of the traditional Western members, but also more recent members from the former Warsaw Pact, including...
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Red Star #23: Soviet/Russian AWACS Aircraft: Tu-126, A-50, An-71 and Ka-31
by Yefim Gordon Publisher Comments The need to ensure effective protection of the Soviet airspace in areas lacking adequate cover by ground radars led the nation's aircraft designers to start working on airborne early warning systems. The Tupolev OKB was the first among the nation's...
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Splash One: The Story of Jet Combat
by Ivan Rendall Publisher Comments From global confrontation at the start of the Cold War, to policing the skies over Iraq and Bosnia, Splash One tells the story of aerial combat in the jet age. It puts the reader in the cockpit of the most beautiful, advanced and lethal aircraft of their...
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Mikoyan Mig-31 (Famous Russian Aircraft)
by Yefim Gordon Publisher Comments The MiG-31 Foxhound long-range interceptor flew in prototype form as the Ye-155MP in 1975 and entered production in 1979, with the first regiments becoming operational in 1982. It has also been sold to China, and it remains in service in significant...
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Born to Fly: The Untold Story of the Downed American Spy Plane
by Shane Osborn Excerpt KADENA AIR BASE, OKINAWA 1 April 2001, 0430 Hours I stood on the handstand, staring up at the big gray-and-white airplane. The wings and four turboprop engines of the EP-3E ARIES II reconnaissance aircraft were outlined sharply in the portable...
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Attack Aircraft (Greenhill Military Manuals)
by Anil R Pustam Publisher Comments Modern conflicts are often decided by air power. In today's world the superiority of a military force is often marked by the number of attack aircraft it can employ and how effectively it utilises them. In this concise guide to today's attack aircraft...
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Okb Yakovlev: A History of the Design Bureau and Its Aircraft
by Yefim Gordon Publisher Comments Starting life in 1927, with Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev's first aircraft, the AIR-1, the OKB produced aircraft such as the Yak-4 light bomber, the Yak-6 light transport and the Yak-1 fighter. The latter paving the way for the highly successful Yak-3...
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International Directory of Military Aircraft
by Gerard Frawley Publisher Comments The fourth edition of this exhausive reference directory includes approximately 310 entries -- one every military aircraft type ever built which is still in use today. Each entry details the aircraft's powerplants, performance crew number, weights...
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Directory of Military Aircraft of the World
by Peter R March Publisher Comments With over 700 photographs, 200 artworks, and 400 aircraft types, plus formal and popular designations, this is the definitive treatment of every military plane made to defend the skies throughout the world. Each easily identifiable aircraft comes...
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Attack & Interceptor Jets
by Michael Sharpe Publisher Comments The first faltering steps into military jet technology were made nearly three-quarters of a century ago, in the time of canvas-and-wire airplanes and steam engines; since then, the results, thanks to jet pioneers throughout the world, have been nothing...
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Great Book of Modern Warplanes Featuring
by Mike Spick Synopsis This volume features many of the warplanes that saw combat in the skies over Iraq in the early 1990s or over the war-torn Balkan state. Each is described in great detail, complete with technical specifications, colour photographs and cutaway drawings....
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OKB Tupolev: A History of the Design Bureau and Its Aircraft
by Yefim Gordon Publisher Comments A History of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft Yefim Gordon & Vladimir Rigmant The origins of the design bureau that was to bear his name can be traced back to the appointment of Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev as head of the TsAGI's Aviation Department in...
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Dressed To Kill: One-off Paint Schemes on Modern Warplanes
by Mark Attrill Publisher Comments Here are stunning unique paint schemes applied to a wide range of military aircraft to celebrate special occasions. Aircraft seen in the period 1990-2000 are included and many of the world's air forces are featured. Superb photography illustrates many of...
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Soviet Secret Projects: Fighters Since 1945
by Tony Butler Publisher Comments This is the latest among Midland's very successful 'Secret Projects' series. This, the second of three volumes covering Soviet secret aviation projects, is devoted to post-World War II fighters and will include designs from famous bureaus such as...
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Close Air Support: Armed Helicopters and Ground Attack Aircraft (Greenhill Military Manuals)
by Michael J H Taylor Publisher Comments This handy and informative new manual details many of the world's principal combat aeroplanes and helicopters used for close air support. It includes a wide range of aircraft, from the purpose-designed tank-busters such as the Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt...
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The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat
by John A Warden Publisher Comments Winner of the Air Force Associations' Gill Robb Wilson award as "one of the most influential books of the decade"....
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Warbird Tech #42: Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker
by Yefim Gordon Publisher Comments Recognized as one of the best fighters of the 1990s, the Su-27 Flanker is a single-seat supersonic interceptor that is often declared the finest and most successful fighter of the Cold War era. Designed by Sukhoi OKB, the imposing fighter quickly gained...
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Stealth Warplanes: Deception, Evasion, and Concealment in the Air
by Doug Richardson Publisher Comments This magnificently illustrated book describes the aircraft and technology behind the most significant developments in aviation since the jet engine. Penetrating the cloud of secrecy, disinformation, and speculation surrounding stealth aircraft, author...
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Superfighters: The Next Generation of Combat Aircraft (General)
by Mel Williams Publisher Comments A heavily illustrated account of the development programs underway for the next generation of fighters due to join the world's air forces between 2002 and 2012. Included is the United States' F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Sweden's Saab...
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