Product Description: Until it is definitively replaced by the Rafale M around 2015, the Super Entendard remains in the front line of all combat missions carried out by the French naval air arm. From Lebanon up to Afghanistan, passing by Kosovo and Serbia, the naval plane has opened fire on its adversaries in often dramatic circumstances, but without losing a single plane in French colors...read more

Product Description: At a time when other planes retire to museums, General Dynamics' fighter-bomber is still a formidable foe in international competitions against so-called "fifth generation" planes. The first prototype flew for the first time in 1974 and the operational career of the last aircraft built will continue well into the 2040s...read more

Product Description: Although its retirement was announced for a while for 2005, the C-160 Transall is still the principal lynchpin of French military air transport. More than forty years after it went into service, this twin-engined tactical transport has been present in all the theaters of operation where the French army has been deployed, not to mention the numerous humanitarian operations which have taken it all over the globe...read more

Product Description: This new collection is devoted to the planes used during the five last decades by the USN and USAF. With this first volume, Fre'de'ric Lert presents the career of the one of the US Navy's most legendary planes, the F-14 Tomcat, Tom Cruise's mount in the very famous film, Top Gun...read more

Product Description: From the basic pure interceptor, Mirage F1, the Dassault company developed two specialized versions, one for all-weather low altitude reconnaissance, named F-1CR and intended to replace the Mirage IIIR and the other designed for tactical attack, named F-1CT, which entered service as a successor to the Mirage IIIE...read more

Product Description: Successor to the Mirage III and the forerunner of the Mirage 2000, the Mirage F1 has sometimes been described as a transitional aircraft. However, this streamlined Mach 2 interceptor, the silhouette of which being neatly different from the former Mirage, due to its non-delta wings, has been in service for nearly 30 years in ten fighters squadrons of the French Air Force...read more

Product Description: The SEPECAT Jaguar was a major success for the European aerospace industry (as a Franco- British joint venture) and is an efficient and solid aircraft which achieved, with relative discretion, an outstanding reputation in Europe,Africa and the Middle-East...read more

Product Description: Frederic Lert has supplemented technical information available in the U.S. with European sources and interviews with former CIA contract agents living abroad to present a unique and heavily illustrated portrait of Agency aerial operations from 1948 to the present.