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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 February 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472850713
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages96 pages
- Size 248x182x8 mm
- Weight 320 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Includes around 60 photos and at least 14 pages of colour illustrations 429
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Long description:
The first English-language book to examine the crucial part air power played in the Soviet-Afghan War.
The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan was fought as much in the air as on the ground. From the high-level bombing raids that blasted rebel-held mountain valleys, to the Mi-24 helicopter gunships and Su-25 jets that accompanied every substantial army operation, Soviet control of the air was a crucial battlefield asset. Vital to every aspect of its operations, Mi-8 helicopters ferried supplies to remote mountain-top observation points and took the bodies of fallen soldiers on their last journey home in An12 'Black Tulips'.
But this was not a wholly one-sided conflict. Even before the Afghan rebels began to acquire man-portable surface-to-air missiles such as the controversial US 'Stinger,' they aggressively and imaginatively adapted. They learnt new techniques of camouflage and deception, set up ambushes against low-level attacks, and even launched daring raids on airbases to destroy aircraft on the ground.
Featuring information previously unknown in the West, such as the Soviets' combat-testing of Yak-38 'Forger' naval jump jets, Soviet-expert Mark Galeotti examines the rebel, Kabul government and the Soviet operation in Afghanistan, drawing deeply on Western and Russian sources, and including after-action analyses from the Soviet military. Using maps, battlescenes and detailed 'Bird's Eye Views', he paints a comprehensive picture of the air war and describes how, arguably, it was Soviet air power that made the difference between defeat for Moscow and the subsequent stalemate that they decided to disengage from.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Flying in an Afghan summer
CHRONOLOGY
ATTACKER'S CAPABILITIES
The Soviet Air Force in Afghanistan
Close air support
Bombing
Airlift
Supporting the war
The DRA Air Force
DEFENDER'S CAPABILITIES
Countering Soviet air power
Deception, evasion and camouflage
Anti-aircraft artillery
MANPADS
Mines and ambushes
Raids
CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES
A decade in Afghanistan
1. Invasion, 1979-80
2. Reluctant escalation, 1980-84
3. Chernenko's war, 1984-86
4. The 'bleeding wound', 1986-88
5. Withdrawal, 1988-89
THE CAMPAIGN
Jets and helicopters fight a guerrilla war
1. Invasion, 1979-80
2. Reluctant escalation, 1980-84
Operation Rhombus and the Yak-38
3. Chernenko's war, 1984-86
Operation Trap: The end of 'Chernenko's war'
4. The 'bleeding wound', 1986-88
The Stinger
Operation Highway, 1987-88
5.Withdrawal, 1988-89
Operation Air-Bridge, January-February 1989
AFTERMATH AND ANALYSIS
FURTHER READING
GLOSSARY
INDEX
Oral Microbiology and Immunology
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