Superfighters; The Next Generation of Combat Aircraft

Norwalk, CT: AIRtime Publishing, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Mike Badrocke, Piotr Butowski, Zaur Eylanbekov, Al. The format is approximately 9.25 inches by 12.25 inches. 144 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Appendices (Including Key Program Dates and Glossary of Acronyms). DJ has some wear and soiling. A heavily illustrated account of the development programs underway for the next generation of fighters due to join the world's air forces between 2002 and 2012. Contribution authors are Piotr Butowski, David Donald, Andrey Fomin, Henri-Pierre Grolleau, Jan Gunnar Jorgensen, Jon Like and Bill Sweetman! Bill Sweetman (born 1956 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK) is a former editor for Jane's and an editor for Aviation Week group. He is a writer of more than 50 books on military aircraft. He is noted for his dogged pursuit of the Aurora project. He appeared as an Aerospace Consultant on in the Nova PBS TV program "Battle of the X-Planes" about the Joint Strike Fighter Program. Contributing artists are Mike Badrocke, Piotr Butowski, Zaur Eylanbekov, Aleksey Mikheyev, Mark Styling, Andrey Zhirnov, and Vasiliy Zolotov. Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a development and acquisition program intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft for the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and formerly Turkey. After a competition between the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35, a final design was chosen based on the X-35. This is the F-35 Lightning II, which will replace various tactical aircraft, including the US F-16, A-10, F/A-18A-D, AV-8B, EA-6B and British Harrier GR7, GR9s and Tornado GR4. The projected average annual cost of the program is $12.5 billion with an estimated program life-cycle cost of $1.1 trillion.