Red Eagles
Subtitle: America's secret MiGs
By: Steve Davies.
Publisher: Osprey Pub.; Osprey Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781846033780
Subjects: United States. -- Air Force. -- Test and Evaluation Squadron, 4477th -- History; MIG (Fighter planes)
Description: From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acquiring "the assets"; title: Laying the ground work; title: Expanded exposures and red flag, 1982-85; title: The final years, 1986-88.