Osprey
ANTI-RADAR PHANTOM HISTORY FROM OSPREY
Anyone keen on modelling the Phantom in its anti-radar guise has a useful reference in Osprey Publishing's new book, F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel Units in Combat.
VINTAGE V-22 RETURNS
Re-issued three times since its original launch in 1989, Italeri's 1/72 V-22A Osprey has been re-released once again, with new decals for three schemes. It might be old, but it still has pleasing aspects.
Book Review: Osprey examines the Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9
While the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 is known for being the type that proved the radial engine as ‘inferior to none’, later models featured an inline powerplant from the ‘D’ series onwards, with this sub-type examined in this Osprey Dogfight title.
FIGHTING OVER RABAUL
Certain aspects of the Pacific air campaign during World War Two seem to garner more attention than others, but operations over New Guinea, and notably the battles for/over Rabaul, seem to escape attention.
WACKY WEAPONS
“Necessity is the mother of invention”, as the saying goes, and this is particularly true during wartime, when operational needs drive massive changes.
PENINSULA AIR BATTLES
For some reason, the Korean War tends to be overlooked by aviation historians, despite its significance of marking the transition between propeller- and jet-powered aircraft, resulting in the first jet-versus-jet combat.
LOCKHEED’S BLACK PROJECTS
Mention the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and thoughts will automatically turn to the SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 and Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson.
BATTLESHIP TARGET
Of all the German Kriegsmarine’s vessels, the Bismarck and its sister Tirpitz were the most feared by the British during World War Two, and the campaign to sink or otherwise cripple the latter is the subject of this Air Campaign volume.
SUPERSONIC POD BOMBER
Although the title suggests a focus on the units that operated the type, Osprey’s treatise on the Convair B-58 Hustler forms a comprehensive history of this supersonic bomber.
GUNS AGAINST AIRCRAFT
Most examinations of the struggle between German air defences and Allied bombers during World War Two tend to focus on air-to-air combat, but Osprey’s Duel 98 instead analyses how the ground anti-aircraft units, the Flakartillerie, factored into the campaign.