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The real Top Gun - the dramatic account of the US Navy's fighter pilots and how they took back the skies over Vietnam
In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the US Navy's kill ratio had fallen to 2:1 - a deadly decline in pilot combat effectiveness. To improve the odds, a corps of hardened fighter pilots founded the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. Top Gun. Utilising actual enemy fighter planes in brutally realistic dogfights, the Top Gun instructors dueled with their students and each other to…
Forlag
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Utgitt
15 desember 2016
Sjanger
Dokumentar og fakta, Historie
Språk
English
Format
epub
DRM-beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781908059093
The real Top Gun - the dramatic account of the US Navy's fighter pilots and how they took back the skies over Vietnam
In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the US Navy's kill ratio had fallen to 2:1 - a deadly decline in pilot combat effectiveness. To improve the odds, a corps of hardened fighter pilots founded the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. Top Gun. Utilising actual enemy fighter planes in brutally realistic dogfights, the Top Gun instructors dueled with their students and each other to achieve a lethal new level of fighting expertise. The training paid off and the Top Gunners dominated the skies over Vietnam.
This gripping account takes you inside the cockpit for an adventure more explosive than any fiction, in the dramatic true story of the legendary military school that has created the most dangerous fighter pilots the world had ever seen.
