The Six-Day War
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Shlomo Aloni
ISBN: 9781472835277
Format: Softback
Price: £14.99O
n one day in June, the
balance of air power
in the Middle East was
turned upside down by perhaps
the most ruthlessly efective air
superiority campaign in history- Operation Moked, or Focus. In
1967, the Israeli Air Force was
outnumbered more than two
to one by the jets of hostile
Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
Operation Focus was Israel’s
ingenious strike plan to overturn
the balance. At 0745hrs on June
6, Israeli jets hit Egypt’s airields
simultaneously, irst bombing
runways and then straing
aircraft. Another 20 follow-up
missions were already in the air,
initially scheduled to hit every
ive minutes. This new history of
Operation ‘Focus ‘explains how
the concept for Focus was devised
and meticulously planned, the
astonishing rate of serviceability
and turnaround speed it required
from ground crews, and how
the relentless tempo of strikes
shattered one air force after
another. It is the story of how
Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War
began with a single, shocking day.
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Latest ReleasesThe Focke Wulf Fw 190
Publisher: Pen
and Sword
Author: Chris Goss
ISBN:
9781473899575
Format: Softback
Price: £14.99T
he Focke-
Wulf Fw 190
was widely
regarded as the
Luftwafe’s inest
ighter. It irst saw
service in France
in August 1941,
immediately
proving itself at
least the equal
of the then latest
Spitire variant, the Mk.V. There
were a number of characteristics
which contributed to the
Fw 190’s success. The irst of
these was that it had been
designed from the outset to be
a weapons platform, rather than
an aircraft to which weapons
were added, as was the case
with previous ighters. This
meant that it could carry a
wide range of armament in the
form of various combinations
of bomb racks, cannon pods
and, later, unguided rockets.
Another element in the Fw 190’s
construction which added to
its durability was its wide-
tracked, inwards-retracting
landing gear, as opposed to
the much narrower, outwards-
retracting landing gear of the
Messerschmitt Bf 109. This
gave the Fw 190 much greater
stability on the ground which
resulted in far fewer ground
accidents than experienced by
the Bf 109. The Fw 190’s BMW801 D-2 radial engine also
produced 1,677 horse power,
giving the early Focke-Wulf 190
A-8 a top speed of more than
400 miles per hour – which was
considerably faster than the
early variant Spitires. The Fw
190’s weapons capability also
saw it used as a ighter-bomber.
The Fw 190 A-3/U3 Jabo was
used with considerable efect
against Allied shipping in
the Channel and against the
south-eastern coasts of England
in 1942 in tip-and-runs raids.
These fast, low-level attacks
proved very diicult for the
defending RAF squadrons to
counter and only one Fw 190
was lost on these operations.
In this illuminating study of the
early service of the Fw 190, Chris
Goss has assembled a unique
collection of photographs
illustrating the wide use of this
highly versatile aircraft.
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.ukSupermarine
Spitfire Part 2
(Grifon Engined)
Publisher: Valiant Wings
Author: Richard A Franks
ISBN: 9780912932009
Format: Softback
Price: £21.95T
he Spitire is probably
the most popular aircraft
modelling subjects around.
This latest book will go some
way towards unpicking the
bewildering choices of variants
and schemes that apply to the
Grifon-powered versions. The
book contains 40+ pages of
technical information, 30+ pages
of walk-around images and
technical diagrams, 10+ pages
of camoulage and markings,
25+ pages of model builds and
modelling information, 200+
photographs including wartime
images, colour side views and
four-views by Richard J. Caruana,
3D isometric views of all variants
by Juraj Jankovic, specially
commissioned full kit builds by
Libor Jekl and Steve A. Evans and
a specially commissioned front
cover artwork by Jerry Boucher.
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