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Author : Marcelle Size Knaack
Release : 1986
Genre : Aeronautics, Military
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Book Synopsis Post-World War II Fighters, 1945-1973 by : Marcelle Size Knaack
Download or read book Post-World War II Fighters, 1945-1973 written by Marcelle Size Knaack. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig C. Hannah
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Striving for Air Superiority by : Craig C. Hannah
Download or read book Striving for Air Superiority written by Craig C. Hannah. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. "Tactical bombing", Gen. Jimmy Doolittle reportedly observed, "is breaking the milk bottle. Strategic bombing is killing the cow". Most nations have historically chosen between building tactical and strategic air forces; rarely has a state given equal weight to both. The advantages of tactical air power are obvious today as small wars and petty tyrants bedevil us, but in a Cold War world split between continental superpowers, strategic bombing took precedence, with calamitous consequences. In the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force lacked the equipment and properly trained pilots to assure air superiority because the Tactical Air Command (TAC) had become little more than a handmaiden to the Strategic Air Command (SAC). TAC focused primarily on the interdiction of enemy bombers and virtually ignored its other responsibilities. Its aircraft were designed to shoot at large, lumbering bombers and not to engage in dog fights with highly maneuverable MiGs. Hannah shows how a tactical air force that won a victory in World War II deteriorated into a second-rate force flying aging aircraft during the early years of the Cold War, recovered briefly over Korea, then slid into obsolescence during the 1950s. His explanation of why America's fighter aircraft did not work in Vietnam is instructive and unsettling. Hannah explains how TAC struggled through the war in Vietnam to emerge in the 1970s as the best tactical air force in the world. He side-steps politics and inter-service rivalries to focus on the nuts and bolts of tactical air power. The result is a factual, informative account of how an air force first loses its way then finds its mission again.
Author : Bill Sweetman
Release : 1991
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 057/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis YF-22 and YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighters by : Bill Sweetman
Download or read book YF-22 and YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighters written by Bill Sweetman. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 2001
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Book Synopsis Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam by :
Download or read book Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam written by . This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Release : 1963
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Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. This book was released on 1963. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
