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Summary
Summary
Multi-role fighters are designed to perform both aerial combat and ground attack roles, and are essential assets to the modern United States Air Force. In this book Steve Davies examines the F/A-18 Super Hornet, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16, F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, combining text with stunning photography of the aircraft. With an introduction to modern multi-role fighters, and text on the development and use of each jet, interspersed with anecdotes from pilots, this is an essential book for all those interested in modern military aviation.
Author Notes
Steve Davies is a freelance military and commercial aviation photojournalist based in Cambridge, England. He began writing in 2001, and has since authored six critically acclaimed books and co-authored three more. His freelance writing includes a plethora of articles penned for the world's leading monthly and quarterly aviation publications, and he has also worked on a range of aviation 'partwork' magazines that have sold millions of copies globally. He has also worked as a subject matter expert for a range of military aviation documentaries commissioned by terrestrial television channels in the UK and North America, and by the History Channel. His photography has been used not only by the aviation press, but also by leading defence contractors and aviation corporations.
