Overview
From Japan to Malaysia, the Pacific Rim is ablaze--in a hell called . . . WORLD WAR III "Superior to the Tom Clancy genre, with characters that came alive . . . and the military aspect far more realistic."--The Spectator In the Pacific--Off Korea's east coast, 185 miles south of the DMZ, six Russian-made TU-22M Backfires come in low, traveling at Mach .9. Each carries two seven-hundred-pound cluster bombs, three one-thousand-pound "iron" or high-explosive bombs, ten one-thousand-pound concrete-piercing bombs, and fifty two-hundred-pound FAEs (fuel air explosives, closely related to Napalm). In Europe--Twenty Soviet Warsaw Pact infantry divisions and four thousand tanks begin to move. They are preceded by hundreds of strike aircraft: SU-24/Fencers for ground support and MiG-29s with air-to-air Alamo and antiradiation, antiradar air-to-surface missiles, with Russian NR-30 mm tank-destroying cannon. All are pointed toward the Fulda Gap. So it begins . . .
- | Author: Ian Slater
- | Publisher: Fawcett Books
- | Publication Date: Mar 01, 1995
- | Number of Pages: 448 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0345470419
- | ISBN-13: 9780345470416
