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The Great Book of Modern Warplanes: Featuring Full Technical Descriptions and Battle Action from Baghdad to Belgrade
The Great Book of Modern Warplanes Featuring Full Technical Descriptions and Battle Action from Baghdad to Belgrade This massive volume presents the most accurate, up-to-date, and highly illustrated descriptions of today's warplanes. The majority of the aircraft featured have been battle-tested in the skies over Iraq and the Balkans. The remainder are either currently being flight-tested or are ready for production. Many of the names are familiar to TV viewer... more »s and aviation enthusiasts the world over: the stealthy F-117 Nighthawk fighter and B-2 bomber; the carrier-borne F/A-18 Hornet and F-14 Tomcat; the battle-hardened A-10 Warthog, Harrier/AV-8 and Tornado; and the ubiquitous F-16 Falcon and F-15 Eagle. They are joined by by America's next generation F-22 Raptor stealth fighter and Joint Strike Fighter; Sweden's Saab Gripen, France's Rafale, the multinational Eurofighter, and Russian MiGs and Sukhois. A multi-page spread for each aircraft includes a wealth of detail: development history, powerplant data, weapons and avionics, deployment, performance specs, and combat analysis-complete with dramatic color photos, cutaway drawings, color profiles depicting markings, and explanatory diagrams.« less