Soviet And Russian Military Aircraft In Asia

I've been a fan of Russian and Soviet Aircrafts since I was at a air show in the late 80. This volume is great. And the other volumes are also very good.

Great info on the usage of Soviet aircraft in various Asian countries. Lots of good color photos and profiles. A must for all fans of Small Air Forces.

Another piece of art , simply great.

Parfait!!!

How do you get the ide'e to write this kind of book? The background checking, etc. I bought the first book covering Africa and I just had to have this one to. It's fascinationg to read the history behind how the aircrafts ends up in the different countrys, there use ( the many pages full with serials i skip...). But when you arrive at the 90's and 00' maybe the books should be renamed " All the Su-27/30/etc and Mi-17/24/25/35 in Asia" :-)

I bought all 3 to be added to my aviation collection.Waiting for the 4th one to be published soon.Great pictures with many profiles.A lot of information by the author.If you enjoy history and aviation ,these books will be a good source of information.Good value for the price.Thank you.Gary

The publisher Crecy needs to be complimented for the quick and timely release of the third hard back book in the series covering yet another exotic geo - Asia The cover was a surprise and has an Indian Navy IL-38 on the top half and not as shown. This latest esoteric title covers all the Asian countries Afghanistan , Bangladesh, to Turkey and Vietnam incl Papua New Guinea and surprisingly Japan (during WW II) and South Korea - India and China have the biggest coverage and take up almost half the book. The Sri Lankan story is quite interesting including the introduction of the Mig 27 as is the Indonesian one esp the tales around the Tu-16 Badger. Each country has a chapter with text and photos in a chronological order - with many period b/w and new colour photos - and around 150 + colour side profiles and some sqn badges - many of which will interest modellers. The text deals with the historical and operational use of the Russian types(aircraft + Helicopters) in each country.At the end of each chapter , there is a listing of serial numbers of the ex-Russian aircraft and a status for each serial - some squadron numbers and location deployments are not listed.There are almost 40 pp of China Serial numbers and 30 Pp for India. There is some new info on North Korea like the use of Tu-143 UAV - but the photo caption errors persist eg on pp 271 the famous F-6 defection to South Korea by Capt Lee is shown as 1966 , whereas it was in 1996. The details of the many skirmishes and air wars the Russian aircraft have participated seems quite sketchy and could have had more details esp on Russian doctrine tactics adopted. On the plus side , there are some interesting colour profiles and lavish b/w and colour pictures - although its strange that some of the Indian air force photos taken by Peter Steineman Pp 169 are used in complete ignorance but i found the aircraft type coverage of India and China to be comprehensive with no major omissions. My big gripe is that again apart from web sites - no bibliography is provided for additional reading. To summarise , this is a lavish and colourful compilation and introduction to Soviet/Russian a/c in Asia and serves well as a concise historical record of aircraft types and well worth buying. The blurb on the back cover states that there will be a fourth volume on Latin and Central American countries which will complete a fascinating history and survey from Yefim Gordon's stable.

This is a great book. If you like Soviet/Russian planes, be sure you don't miss it. Like the books on Africa and the Middle East: great. Cannot wait to see the volume on the Americas!