Cold War Jet Combat: Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950 - 1972
Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft. From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights that spanned these jet-powered wars are enlivened to thrilling effect, including those engaged in during the two Indo-Pak Wars of 1965 and 1971.

Operation ‘Musketeer’ (1956), mounted when RAF and French Air Force bombers and fighter-bombers attacked airfields and other targets in Egypt (after President Nasser had nationalized the Suez Canal), is also covered in this gripping narrative. The Falklands Campaign is also covered, as is the Vietnam War.

In another chapter, QRA operations around the British Isles are put under the microscope as RAF Phantoms, Lightnings, Tornadoes and Typhoon Eurofighters on Quick Reaction Alert are described, patrolling international air space and maintaining a constant vigil as Soviet ‘Bears’ continued to test NATO defenses.

All in all, this is a compelling, well-researched and highly informative study of a particularly dynamic era in aviation history.
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Cold War Jet Combat: Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950 - 1972
Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft. From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights that spanned these jet-powered wars are enlivened to thrilling effect, including those engaged in during the two Indo-Pak Wars of 1965 and 1971.

Operation ‘Musketeer’ (1956), mounted when RAF and French Air Force bombers and fighter-bombers attacked airfields and other targets in Egypt (after President Nasser had nationalized the Suez Canal), is also covered in this gripping narrative. The Falklands Campaign is also covered, as is the Vietnam War.

In another chapter, QRA operations around the British Isles are put under the microscope as RAF Phantoms, Lightnings, Tornadoes and Typhoon Eurofighters on Quick Reaction Alert are described, patrolling international air space and maintaining a constant vigil as Soviet ‘Bears’ continued to test NATO defenses.

All in all, this is a compelling, well-researched and highly informative study of a particularly dynamic era in aviation history.
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Cold War Jet Combat: Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950 - 1972

Cold War Jet Combat: Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950 - 1972

by Martin W Bowman
Cold War Jet Combat: Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950 - 1972

Cold War Jet Combat: Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950 - 1972

by Martin W Bowman

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Overview

Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft. From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights that spanned these jet-powered wars are enlivened to thrilling effect, including those engaged in during the two Indo-Pak Wars of 1965 and 1971.

Operation ‘Musketeer’ (1956), mounted when RAF and French Air Force bombers and fighter-bombers attacked airfields and other targets in Egypt (after President Nasser had nationalized the Suez Canal), is also covered in this gripping narrative. The Falklands Campaign is also covered, as is the Vietnam War.

In another chapter, QRA operations around the British Isles are put under the microscope as RAF Phantoms, Lightnings, Tornadoes and Typhoon Eurofighters on Quick Reaction Alert are described, patrolling international air space and maintaining a constant vigil as Soviet ‘Bears’ continued to test NATO defenses.

All in all, this is a compelling, well-researched and highly informative study of a particularly dynamic era in aviation history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781473837737
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 04/13/2016
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Martin Bowman is one of Britain's leading aviation authors and has written a great deal of books focussing on aspects of Second World War aviation history. He lives in Norwich in Norfolk. He is the author of many Pen and Sword Aviation titles, including all releases in the exhaustive Air War D-Day and Air War Market Garden series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 4

Chapter 1 First Jet War; Task force 77: Korea 5

Chapter 2 The MiG Killers: Sabres in the Korean War 1950-1953 23

Chapter 3 The Indo-Pak Wars 63

Chapter 4 QRA 113

Chapter 5 The Six Day War 129

Chapter 6 A Hostile Peace 145

Chapter 7 Yom Kippur (Ramadan) War 187

Chapter 8 Carrier-borne Combat Viêtnam 1964-1973 199

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