Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs

by Steve Davies

From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics. Red Eagles tells the story of this squadron from the first tests of MiGs following the Vietnam War when the USAF had been woefully under-prepared in aerial combat. These initial flights would develop into the "black" or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846033780
• ISBN13: 9781846033780
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"