Red Eagles
Subtitle: America's secret MiGs
By: Steve Davies
Edition: Rev. and updated ed.
Publisher: Osprey Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Botley, Oxford; Long Island City, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781846039706
Subjects: United States; MiG (Fighter planes); United States. Air Force. Test and Evaluation Squadron, 4477th; History
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: "Foreword by General J. Jumper"--Jkt.

"Featuring recently declassified material"--Jkt.

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.