Air Power in the Last Decade of the Cold War
The unimaginable prospect of nuclear annihilation came close to stark reality several times during the Cold War. By the 1980s the air forces of NATO and the Warsaw Pact were at their numerical peak, more lethal than ever and poised for action. Former Tornado GR1 pilot Michael Napier assesses the military aviation build-up in the last decade of the stand-off
Reinforcing the UK: USAF Cold War Fighter Deployments
From the late 1970s, the USAF’s Tactical Air Command developed detailed deployment plans to move aircraft to Europe to counter the Warsaw Pact should the Cold War heat up. Dr Kevin Wright looks at how these plans were implemented in Britain from 1978 to 1991.