The Authors surely at least Ken? Don’t they get paid in royalties everytime they have their work published – or re-published, and so on…

I was under the impression it still cost the USAF about $40-45 million-a-piece when they first acquired them in the 80’s. Could be wrong, but I am sure I read that somewhere.

This was covered a while ago Deino, but I too look forward to them. Got a new catalogue from AIRtime recently and they have some other new books out, and on the way as well as the Russian directory volumes. Still can’t help but wonder how much of these new books are simply re-hashed from previous material.

New books include:

Air Combat Legends Vol.1 (Bf-109, Spitfire and Seafire)
Air Combat Legends Vol.2 (P-38 Lightning, P-47 Thunderbolt, and P-51 Mustang)
Warplanes of the Fleet
Modern Battlefield Warplanes

Anyone have them yet?

Or relive the Battle of Surigao Strait. 🙂 🙂

The PT action in Surigao strait was uneventful. A good capital fleet sim game would be better for reliving that action. Nice screen shots anyway. The Pacific theatre could be coming, just as Microsoft did with their Combat Flight Simulator. Be Patient.

If the whole point of the missile is standardisation between the service doesn’t adaptation for each service contradict that design feature?

Good point Garry, but I think this may refer to warhead type. It uses the tri-mode seeker already so the all weather/night missions are covered.

Is it just me or does there seem to be a LOT of Indian defence and Indian AF threads now…

I have been going through the pages and catching up on what I have missed and they seem to be everywhere.

Try here:http://www.lmtas.com/gallery/videos/products/combat_air/f-22/index.html