Militares

The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in the United States Navy's last, and most battle-worthy, battleship class, which also included the New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri. This volume explores Iowa's design, construction, launching, and commissioning, as well as its extensive wartime activities (...)

English text and captions, 108 pages of content, over 190 hitherto unpublished images mainly in colour, 8 colour profilesFrom the content: Introduction VMA-231 'Ace of Spades' VMA-513 'Flying Nightmares' VMA-542 'Tigers'VMAT-203 'Hawks' Naval Air Test center (NATC) NASA Armada Española Royal Thai (...)

US Stealth Fighter Projects explores secret and experimental American stealth fighter designs that never reached production.The development of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk the world's first in-service combat aircraft specifically designed to be undetectable by radar was a huge leap forward in (...)

The threat posed by the Soviet Union throughout the postwar period coincided with an explosion of innovation and can-do attitude among America's aircraft manufacturers. Challenging requirements and experimentation resulted in a huge variety of designs for aircraft powered by nuclear reaction, (...)