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F-15C Eagle vs. MiG-23/25 - Iraq 1991

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Duel - Aircraft

MSRP old price: $20.00


Product Info

Title
F-15C Eagle vs. MiG-23/25 - Iraq 1991
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Douglas Dildy, Tom Cooper
Publish Year
2016
Pages
80
Dimensions
7.25x9.75x.25"
NKG Part #
2147634667
MFG. Part #
OSPDUE072
Type
Softcover
Series
DUE72

Description

Designed following the relative poor performance of America's multi-role fighters during the Vietnam War, the F-15 Eagle was conceived as a dedicated air superiority fighter. But having trained for fifteen years in the Eagle, it wasn't Eastern Bloc-operated MiGs that the F-15 eventually came up against, but pilots of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi air force.

This book analyzes the combat between the American and Soviet "Cold War fighters" in a balanced and objective fashion, examining how the technical abilities of the aircraft combined with the different levels of training available to opposing pilots and ground crews allowed the F-15s to destroy the Iraqi offensive abilities within weeks of the start of the First Gulf War. Packed with artwork, illustrations, and photographs, this book places the reader in the cockpit during one of the last major dogfighting air wars in modern history.