Modern American Combat Aircraft

New York: Crescent Books, 1982. First Crescent Books Edition [presumed] Second printing. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 12.75 inches. 80 pages. Illustrations [Full color throughout, Nearly 200 illustrating including cutaways, profiles, photographs and diagrams. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Small edge tear at page 37/38 and 47/48 noted. Minor page scuffing noted. This is one of the Combat Aircraft Library series. David A Anderton is an international known and widely published writer and photographer. He is a graduate aeronautical engineers. He has frequently written for NASA publications on aeronautical and aeronautical research. His Strategic Air Command won the Aviation/Space Writes' Association non-fiction award. Today, the military scene is a complex multi-environment business with the world as its theater. Submarines haunt the ocean depths and satellites patrol the heavens. But most envisaged battles will take place within the scope of aircraft and air power is the key to military dominance and security. This volume surveys these magnificent machines and graphically displays their deadly potential: a potential that maintains the current peace and will stand between the victor and the defeated should World War 3 ever darken our skies in the future.