Jane's How to Fly and Fight in the Mikoyan Mig-29 Fulcrum: At the Controls

Jane's At the Controls is a new series providing a 'hands-on' briefing of what it is like to fly and fight in modern combat aircraft. The MiG-29 was introduced by the Soviet air-force just as the Warsaw Pact began to break up. Armed with a new generation of air-to-air missiles and capable of astonishing maneuvers that can give it to the edge against most modern interceptors, the MiG-29 remains one of the best fighter aircraft in the world today. Author Biography: David C. Isby is a Washington-based attorney and defense consultant. A special correspondent for Jane's Intelligence Review, he has contributed to many military and aviation publications and written extensively on the Russian armed forces. He lives in Washington D.C. Jane's __At the Controls__ is a new series providing a 'hands-on' briefing of what it is like to fly and fight in modern combat aircraft. The MiG-29 was introduced by the Soviet air-force just as the Warsaw Pact began to break up. Armed with a new generation of air-to-air missiles and capable of astonishing maneuvers that can give it to the edge against most modern interceptors, the MiG-29 remains one of the best fighter aircraft in the world today. A hands-on guide to Russia's primary frontline fighter, the MiG-29, which closed the technological gap between Soviet and NATO fast jets. Artwork and photographs illustrate a text which takes the reader step-by-step through a MiG-29 mission, revealing how its sensors and weapon systems can combine to bring down Tomahawk cruise missiles. Beskriver luftoperationer med det russiske jagerbomberfly MiG-29 Fulcrum