This title reveals how the jet engine revolutionized aerial combat. From the end of World War II to the 1991 Gulf War, fighters have become ever more complex and expensive machines. Yet some tactics remain as valid today as they were over Germany in 1945. "Fighter Combat in the Jet Age" explains which aircraft have had the most influence on aerial warfare, why Germany developed jet fighters before Britain or the USA and how less capable Russian aircraft were able to defeat US fighters over Vietnam. Different fighters are compared and the operational methods of major air forces contrasted.
- ISBN10 0004708229
- ISBN13 9780004708225
- Publish Date 31 March 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 January 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk