Crescent Books, New York, 1981, 384 p.A comprehensive guide to modern military aircraft features diagrams and descriptions of more than one hundred types of planes and air-launched missiles as well as reviewing the air forces and military capabilities of each nation. It has excellent statistics on use, combat history, developmental history, what countries employ the aircraft, and on the munitions they carry. It even gives flight data on the different types of missiles used by military around the world. This is the finest and most comprehensive tome of its' type. The illustrations alone, surface and cutaway, are reason enough to buy the book.The Encyclopedia of World Air Power is the world's most comprehensive encyclopedia on contemporary military aviation. Arranged alphabetically in three sections, it has over six hundred entries on all military aircraft in Service, their missile Systems and the air forces that fly them.The volume contains more than a thousand illustrations and diagrams. and has a text of half a million words compiled by a team of eighteen leading aviation writers.There is a pressing reguirement for a Single comprehensive encyclopedia. An increasing number of nations are acquirmg air forces and fighting wars with them. Indeed, during the year and a half it has taken to compile this volume over forty of the world's air forces flying over a hundred different types of aircraft have been in action, both internally and externally. Fortunately, the major powers have not been directly mvolved, but they keep up a Potential of increasing volume and complexity. Constantly patrolling, photographing and plotting being at permanent combat readiness and prepared to airlift vast armies to any part of the globe, they fight an undeclared stand-off war of their own.This increasing activity, complexity activity weapon proliferation makes up to date Information absolutely vital to those involved and interested in the subject, and this encyclopedia should be required reading for all.Contents:The World's Air Forces
The World's Military Aircraft
The World's Air-Iaunched Missiles
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