Air Forces & Warfare

The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded ...

Despite being Americas most produced bomber, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator has forever flown in the shadow of its more famous and glamorous B-17 ...

If asked to name a British aircraft of World War II, many people would pick the Spitfire. In production and frontline service throughout the war, t...

In the early 1990s, Georgia and its breakaway South Ossetia region had agreed to a Russian-mediated ceasefire that provided for Russian peacekeepe...

Air Force war-fighting capabilities have a proud heritage of being born from the very best science and technology our Nation can create; indeed, th...

Between 1945 and 1963 over 2 12 million 18-year-olds were called up for national service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story...

By the mid-1930s the obstacles to high speed that aircraft designers faced included the question of cooling the engine. This was a big challenge th...

The exploits of the Mosquito crews in Burma, skimming at low-level and at speed along rivers and over treetops to their targets, are the stuff of l...

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens....

Former RAF Tornado pilot Michael Napier chronicles the action-packed history of the Harrier GR 7/9, and its missions in West Africa, the Balkans, t...

A compelling account of the failure of Imperial Japan's Operation Ro-Go, intended to take the offensive in the Solomons theater of the Pacific War,...

The SR-71 Blackbird is an iconic aircraft that has come to symbolize America's technological superiority during the Cold War. Using recently declas...

With its iconic bubble canopy and advanced helmet-mounted displays, the F-16 Fighting Falcon is one of the supreme Fourth Generation air-superiorit...

This is the fascinating true story behind one of the key reasons that RAF Fighter Command saw such success in the Second World War and emerged vict...

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