This 1990 RPG supplement by Peter Phillipps portrays a Britain after World War III. Well. Up to a point. It is a famously bad book.
1991 military fiction; second in the Carrier series. A complex plot sees Burmese, Thai and Chinese renegades orchestrating a breakup of SEATO for purposes unclear at first. Carrier Battle Group 14 is going to get caught in the middle.
1991 military fiction; first in the Carrier series. An American intelligence ship and her crew vanish on the high seas; the North Koreans admit nothing. Carrier Battle Group 14 is sent in to get them out.
1996 alternate-world military fiction; seventh in the Carrier series. "Tombstone" Magruder is still CAG aboard USS Thomas Jefferson, which is sent to the Black Sea for peacekeeping operations in the context of the ongoing Russian civil war.
The Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-219 suffered an accident in the Atlantic, and later sank, in October 1986.
The D-21 was a supersonic reconnaissance drone used briefly in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands; a Royal Navy task group was sent to take them back. This is the memoir of the task group's commander.
The invasion of Europe, seen entirely from the Soviet point of view.
HMAS Melbourne was the Royal Australian Navy's last aircraft carrier (to date).
The USSR launches a limited nuclear strike against the USA. Things get worse.
Some time in the 1980s, the USSR invades Europe.
Some time in the 1980s, a terrorist attack on oil infrastructure leads the USSR to invade Europe.
The YF-23 was a prototype that competed against the Lockheed YF-22 to become the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter in the 1990s; the Lockheed plane won.
The Yak-38 (NATO reporting name "Forger") was the Soviet carrier-borne fixed-wing aircraft of the Cold War.
The XV-4 was a prototype V/STOL aircraft built for the US Army.
The YB-35 and YB-49 were flying-wing bomber prototypes built during and in the wake of the Second World War.
The SeaMaster was to be a flying-boat strategic bomber for the U.S. Navy.
Yeah, I pretty much have to do this one, don't I? The Valkyrie was to be a Mach 3 high-altitude nuclear bomber.
The Vigilante was a carrier-borne supersonic bomber.
Third in the Carrier series. "Tombstone" Magruder is a naval aviator aboard a Nimitz-class carrier, as the USA gets involved in a major conflict with India.
The TSR-2 was to be a highly capable low-and-fast bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. It was famously cancelled in 1965.
Not the ancestor of what would become the SR-71, this A-12 was to be the US Navy's very own stealth bomber.
One of the desiderata of an air defence system is to put defending fighters close to the high-value targets. That way they don't get decoyed away by diversionary attacks, giving the enemy bombers a clear run, because they're dedicated to protecting a specific target; nor do they need massive endurance (adding to weight), if they don't need to make long-distance flights.
For convenience, wargamers tend to split history into periods with broadly similar weapons and tactics.
The Cutlass was a high-subsonic carrier-borne fighter, flying off Essex and Midway-class carriers.
After the total nuclear war, the captain of a missile destroyer leads his crew through the irradiated world and towards a new life.
I am going to talk about plot details, so if you care about not knowing that sort of thing you probably shouldn't read this review.
One of the great scars on the American military-aviation psyche was the unescorted bomber. As the men who'd been on the front lines during the Second World War became the leaders of the Air Force, they tried to do something about it.
The Hustler was not just the first aircraft to be named after a pornographic magazine (this is a lie, it first flew nearly twenty years before that was thought of), it was the world's first operational supersonic bomber.
The Peacemaker was the world's first intercontinental bomber, and the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built.