Modern Air Combat

Fülszöveg

The aircraft, tactics and weapons employed in aerial warfare today
This book is the most exciting volume on fighting aircraft for decades. By cutting through the jargon right down to the basics about modern air combat it opens up the amazing world of air warfare to the ordinary reader. It is an extremely technical subject, to be sure, reflecting the tremendous and increasing advances in computer, electronics, materials and weapon system technology. But the technicalities have been explained simply and, even more helpful perhaps, have been illustrated graphically so that both the lay enthusiast and the wing commander can fully appreciate what is going on in the modern fighter cockpit, how the stresses of aerial dogfights affect the aircraft and pilot and what is being done to improve the performance of both, how today's weapons relentlessly seek their targets and how electronic countermeasures work to confuse deadly weapons and the enemy launch aircraft. Further, the book looks at... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The aircraft, tactics and weapons employed in aerial warfare today
This book is the most exciting volume on fighting aircraft for decades. By cutting through the jargon right down to the basics about modern air combat it opens up the amazing world of air warfare to the ordinary reader. It is an extremely technical subject, to be sure, reflecting the tremendous and increasing advances in computer, electronics, materials and weapon system technology. But the technicalities have been explained simply and, even more helpful perhaps, have been illustrated graphically so that both the lay enthusiast and the wing commander can fully appreciate what is going on in the modern fighter cockpit, how the stresses of aerial dogfights affect the aircraft and pilot and what is being done to improve the performance of both, how today's weapons relentlessly seek their targets and how electronic countermeasures work to confuse deadly weapons and the enemy launch aircraft. Further, the book looks at what should and could be done to enhance fighter design in future.
The book is in three parts: the technology of air warfare; the aircraft and their weapons; and air combat tactics. The centrepiece is almost 100 pages of fabulous full-colour artwork depicting the most potent fighters and attack aircraft in the world today, with combinations of possible weapon loads spread beneath them, in scale. No other book has ever attempted to get to the heart of the matter in this way: it portrays the fact that modern combat aircraft are not just extremely beautiful machines; they represent a formidable combination of speed and destructive potential.
How that combination is effectively brought to bear in air-to-air combat is vividly displayed in the section on tactics, which examines fighting effectiveness of the aircraft, the threats and tasks, methods and manoeuvres, basic aerodynamics and limitations, and — not least — the pilot, his training and equipment.
Almost 300 dramatic photographs, most in full colour, over 120 explanatory diagrams, and over 135 annotated line drawings of aircraft combine with the lucidly written text to produce the most informative and fascinating book on air warfare in today's high-technology climate. Vissza