Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering (Repost)
Robert L. Shaw - Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering
Naval Institute Press | 1985 | ISBN: 0870210599 | 447 pages | PDF | 5.38MB
Naval Institute Press | 1985 | ISBN: 0870210599 | 447 pages | PDF | 5.38MB
This book is one of the best single-source volumes on the complexity of modern aircraft combat maneuvering. It is not light reading, but fighter aviation is deadly serious - high speed, three dimensional chess where the loss of the game is a very ugly death. The book begins with the basics (flight sim players might find it useful to consider his chapters "lesson plans" for practicing) and gradually take the reader into greater depth. Readers may find it useful to re-read some chapters - the text is fairly tight and there is much of value in here that might get overlooked.
While individual aircraft systems and weapons vary, the basic principles of aerial killing have not changed since WWI: see before being seen, kill before the enemy realizes he is dead, protect your wingman, and come home alive. Shaw shows you how it is done.