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 . . .
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780345470416
- ISBN-10: 0345470419
- Publisher: Fawcett Books
- Publish Date: March 1995
- Dimensions: 8.6 x 6 x 1.08 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.27 pounds
- Page Count: 448
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