Dimensions
130 x 198 x 25mm
The Story of Jet Combat.
This tells the story of aerial combat in the jet age. It puts you in the cockpit of the most beautiful, advanced and lethal aircraft of their day, in some of the classic battles for air superiority of the last fifty years.
From "MiG Alley" in the Korean War to "Thud Ridge" in Vietnam, 'Splash One' traces the hard lessons that led to the legendary Top Gun school of air combat. From the opening strikes by Israeli Air Force jets in the Six Day War through the "electronic summer" of 1970 to final victory in the Yom Kippur War it charts the revolution brought about by electronics and missile systems. And 'Splash One' takes the wars and actions in the Gulf, and of the British in the Falklands, to describe how the Western and NATO emphasis on the man in the cockpit, his initiative and aggression, has prevailed in battle.
This is the gripping story of air combat in the jet age, of fighter pilots and their fearsome machines, and of the violent aggression that is the reality of modern battle.
