Comments: 96 pages

ISBN: 978-1-4728-1255-1

Price: $23

Publisher: Osprey

From the publisher: At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Vietnam People’s Air Force (VPAF) was equipped with slow, old Korean War-generation fighters — a combination of MiG-17s and MiG-19s that should have offered little resistance to the such cutting-edge American fighter-bombers such as the F-4 Phantom II, F-105 Thunderchief, and F-8 Crusader. Yet when the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy unleashed their aircraft on North Vietnam in 1965, the inexperienced pilots of the VPAF challenged American air superiority. Taking advantage of the MiGs’ low-speed maneuverability and powerful cannon, several North Vietnamese pilots became aces. Packed with information previously unavailable in the West and only recently released from archives in Vietnam, this is a major analysis of the exploits of the VPAF as David as it took on the American Goliath in the skies over Vietnam.

 
FSM says: Best for modelers are the 10 color plates with 30 different profiles of colors and markings, all but 6 for natural metal.