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Red Eagles

The USAF's Cold War Secret Squadon

Steve Davies (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2008
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84603-378-0 (ISBN)

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From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics. Red Eagles tells the story of this squadron from the first tests of MiGs following the Vietnam War when the USAF had been woefully under-prepared in aerial combat. These initial flights would develop into the "black" or classified program known internally as Constant Peg. At a secret air base in Nevada, ace American fighter pilots were presented with a range of differnet MiG jets with a simple remit: to expose "the threat" to as many of their brethern as possible. Maintaining and flying these "assets" without without spare parts or manuals was an almost impossible task, putting those flying the MiGs in mortal danger on every flight. Despite these challenges, in all more than 5,900 American aircrews would train against America's secret MiGs, giving them the eskills they needed to face the enemy in real combat situations. For the first time, this book tells the story of Constant Peg and the 4477th Red Eagles Squadron in the words of the men who made it possible.

Steve Davies is a freelance military and commercial aviation photojournalist based in Cambridge, England. He began writing in 2001, and has since authored six critically acclaimed books and co-authored three more. His freelance writing includes a plethora of articles penned for the world s leading monthly and quarterly aviation publications, and he has also worked on a range of aviation partwork magazines that have sold millions of copies globally. He has also worked as a subject matter expert for a range of military aviation documentaries commissioned by terrestrial television channels in the UK and North America, and by the History Channel. His photography has been used not only by the aviation press, but also by leading defence contractors and aviation corporations."

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.9.2008
Reihe/Serie	General Military
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 233 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-84603-378-0 / 1846033780
ISBN-13	978-1-84603-378-0 / 9781846033780
Zustand	Neuware