Migs Over Nevada

Author : T. D. Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086867558
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MiGs Over Nevada written by T. D. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MiGs over Nevada is a nonfiction account of Area 51 becoming the venue for the United States exploiting foreign aircraft, stealth, and radar. In 1955, the CIA chose Area 51 as its top-secret venue to test fly the U-2 reconnaissance plane. The CIA code-named it Project AQUATONE. In 1959, The CIA upgraded Area 51 to test fly its Mach 3, high-flying A-12 reconnaissance plane code named Project OXCART to replace the U-2. To conduct these tests, the CIA assembled a team of specialists known as Special Projects. In 1968, the CIA's Special Projects team provided the technology and radar systems to technically and tactically exploit the Soviet MiG-21 Fishbed code-named Project HAVE DOUGHNUT. The CIA's Special Projects then exploited the Soviet MiG-17 Fresco in Projects HAVE DRILL and HAVE FERRY. This was the genesis of the Navy's Top Gun Weapons School and the Air Force's Red Flag Exercises that continue today. Decades of follow-on exploitation projects followed at Area 51. The author was a member of this Special Projects team more highly classified than the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. In October 2013, the CIA declassified these projects. MiGs over Nevada does more than document the exploitation of the MiG-17F Fresco C, MiG-21F Fishbed, and the MiG-23 Flogger. It carries the reader through the evolution of Area 51 that made it the venue for the CIA's U-2 Project AQUATONE, A-12 Project OXCART, for exploiting Soviet MiG aircraft, and the nations black projects that followed and continue today. It tells how these projects inspired decades of exploitation projects that morphed into MiG operations known as the Red Eagles and the Red Hats. MiGs over Nevada describes Area 51 operations where a small group of CIA personnel and contract specialists served and supported customers such as the US Air Force, the US Navy, and numerous corporate entities seeking technological tradecraft existing only at Area 51. The book tells how living under a cloak of secrecy affected the family of one whose career path made him a member of this secret cadre for test flying spy planes, and exploiting enemy technology.

Author : T. D. Barnes
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517369934
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migs Over Nevada written by T. D. Barnes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, the CIA chose Area 51 as its top-secret venue to test fly the U-2 reconnaissance plane. The CIA code-named it Project AQUATONE. In 1959, The CIA upgraded Area 51 to test fly its Mach 3, high-flying A-12 reconnaissance plane code named Project OXCART to replace the U-2. To conduct these tests, the CIA assembled a team of specialists known as Special Projects. In 1968, the CIA's Special projects team provided the technology and radar systems to technically and tactically exploit the Soviet MiG-21 Fishbed., code named Project HAVE DOUGHNUT. The CIA's Special Projects then exploited the Soviet MiG-17 Fresco in Projects HAVE DRILL and HAVE FERRY.. This was the genesis of the Navy's Top Gun Weapons School and the Air Force's Red Flag exercises that continue today. Decades of follow-on exploitation projects followed at Area 51. The author was a member of this Special Projects team more highly classified than the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. In October 2013, the CIA declassified these projects and approved the author's printing of this book. MiGs Over Nevada does more than document the exploitation of the MiG-17F Fresco C, MiG-21F Fishbed, and the MiG-23 Flogger. It carries the reader through the evolution of Area 51 that made it the venue for the CIA's U-2 Project AQUATONE, A-12 Project OXCART, for exploiting Soviet MiG aircraft, and the nations black projects that followed and continue today. It tells how these projects inspired decades of exploitation projects that morphed into MiG operations known as the Red Eagles and the Red Hats. MiGs Over Nevada describes Area 51 operations where a small group of CIA personnel and contract specialists served and supported customers such as the US Air Force, the US Navy, and numerous corporate entities seeking technological tradecraft existing only at Area 51. The book tells how living under a cloak of secrecy affected the family of one whose career path made him a member of this secret cadre for test flying spy planes, and exploiting enemy technology.

Author : Thornton D. Barnes
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499551655
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migs Over Nevada written by Thornton D. Barnes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CIA declassification in October 2013 released information making possible the release of MiGs Over Nevada by Thornton D. "TD" Barnes. The book is an Area 51 veteran's account of the exploitation of Soviet MiGs at Area 51 that reversed the ratio of planes lost in the Vietnam War. The book covers the development of carry on projects that developed into a business at Area 51 to make it a permanent national test facility. Declassified documents released by the CIA in October 2013 reveal how a former CIA contract special projects team based at Area 51 developed a technological service for evaluating enemy aerial assets in conjunction with evaluating proof of concept technology of US companies vying for government contracts. This book is about the MiG plane exploitation projects that were the genesis of the Navy Top Gun Weapons School, the Air Force Red Flag exercises, and addition of aggressors to the Air Force weapons school. MiGs Over Nevada describes the operations at Area 51 where a small group of CIA personnel and contract specialists served as cadre serviced the needs of customers such as the US Air Force, the US Navy, and numerous corporate entities seeking the technological services that exists only at Area 51. The book also provides a view into the recruitment of this secret cadre and how it effected their families having to live under a cloak of secrecy.

Author : Steve Davies
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846033780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Eagles written by Steve Davies and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, culminating in a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy technology and tactics. Red Eagles tells the story of this squadron from the first tests of MiGs following the Vietnam War when the USAF had been woefully under-prepared in aerial combat. These initial flights would develop into the "black" or classified program known internally as Constant Peg. At a secret air base in Nevada, ace American fighter pilots were presented with a range of differnet MiG jets with a simple remit: to expose "the threat" to as many of their brethern as possible. Maintaining and flying these "assets" without without spare parts or manuals was an almost impossible task, putting those flying the MiGs in mortal danger on every flight. Despite these challenges, in all more than 5,900 American aircrews would train against America's secret MiGs, giving them the eskills they needed to face the enemy in real combat situations. For the first time, this book tells the story of Constant Peg and the 4477th Red Eagles Squadron in the words of the men who made it possible.

Author : Annie Jacobsen
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316193852
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Area 51 written by Annie Jacobsen and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times). It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government — but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens, underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for extended periods. In Area 51, Jacobsen shows us what has really gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on Terror. This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public, Area 51 weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative, showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction, especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.

Author : Major Harold A. Skaarup
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595621384
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Mig Flights written by Major Harold A. Skaarup and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of "there I was" stories highlighting the experiences of Canadian Forces pilots who have had the opportunity of a lifetime to fly in the combat aircraft operated by former adversaries. Technical descriptions of key Soviet-built fighter jets such as the MiG-15, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-29, Sukhoi Su-22 and Su-27 are included for general reference. The Canadian Fighter pilots mentioned in the story have generously provided their observations and comments on their specific experiences of flight in aircraft such as the MiG-29 (NATO codenamed Fulcrum), Sukhoi Su-22 (codenamed Fitter) and Su-27 (codenamed Flanker), both in Canada and overseas. The stories as told first hand by the pilots who contributed them should provide interesting reading for aviation enthusiasts of all ages. An Annex listing aircraft known to have been brought to the West by defecting pilots since 1949 is also included. The Annex briefly describes pilots and aircraft and the circumstances that brought the various defectors to the west, including the MiG-15 flown to South Korea by Lieutenant No Kum-Sok and the MiG-25 flown to Japan by Lieutenant Viktor Belenko. Brief details of Soviet-built aircraft later flown in NATO opposition force flight test programs are also included.

Author : Gaillard R. Peck, Jr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178096868X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America’s Secret MiG Squadron written by Gaillard R. Peck, Jr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal account of the original “Red Eagle” of the establishment, equipment, and training practices of the highly classified MiG squadron of the USAF. America's Secret MiG Squadrons is the story of a group of incredibly brave military pioneers who put their lives on the line to establish a training program that would prepare the US Air Force for a potential Cold War battle with Soviet aircraft. As a F-4 Phantom II pilot in Vietnam, Col. Peck had been shocked by the technological abilities of Soviet-built aircraft, and at the poor level of training available to US pilots to aid them in their battles with Soviet MiGs in the skies over Vietnam. Working with the support of Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr., and under conditions of extreme secrecy, the CONSTANT PEG program was launched with Peck as the original Red Eagle. This is the fascinating history of the men who trained to fly and maintain covertly obtained MiGs, for the first time providing an insider's perspective, personal anecdotes, and photographs, revealing how Peck battled bureaucracy and scepticism to ultimately establish the premier fighter pilot training center – the real Top Gun.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428990488
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.

Author : Gaillard R. Peck, Jr.
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781472804846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America’s Secret MiG Squadron written by Gaillard R. Peck, Jr. and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade at the height of the Cold War, the US Air Force operated a covert, top secret training program called CONSTANT PEG. In 2006 the program was eventually declassified and the incredible story of America's secret MiGs emerged. For the first time one of the original "Red Eagles" - Col. Gailliard Peck Jr - reveals what it was like to learn to pilot secretly obtained Soviet aircraft, enabling American pilots to train against the hardware they would have to face if the Cold War ever ran hot. America's Secret MiG Squadron is the story of a group of incredibly brave military pioneers who put their lives on the line to establish a training program that would prepare the US Air Force for a potential Cold War battle with Soviet aircraft. As a F-4 Phantom II piolot in Veitnam, Col. Gail Peck had been shocked by the technicalolgical abilities of the Soviet-built aircraft, and at the poor level of training available to US pilots to aid them in their battles with the Soviet MidGs in the skies over Veitnam. Working with the support of Gen. Hoyt S. Vendenberg, Jr and under conditions of extreme secrecy the CONSTANT PEG program was launched with Peck as the original Red Eagle. This is the fascinating history of the men who trained to fly and maintain covertly obtained MiGs, which for the first time provids an insiders persepective, personal anecdotes and photographs, revealing how Peck battled bureaucracy and skepticism to ultimately establish the premier fighter pilot training center - the real Top Gun.

Author : Mark A. Werkema
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469751690
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Fulcrum's Wings written by Mark A. Werkema and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON A SECRET AIRSTRIKE MISSION ONE NIGHT, TWO U.S. EX-FIGHTER PILOTS WAGE WAR IN OLD SOVIET MIG-29 FULCRUMS OVER THE SKIES OF IRAQ Tensions are building again in the Gulf region. In the many years after the Gulf War, Iraq continues to threaten regional and world peace. Stability and peace in the Gulf are in peril. The U.S. is deeply concernedaction must be taken. Another war is imminent. The famed MiG-29 Fulcrum and the country of Iraq provide the backdrop for a top secret U.S. air strike and form the basis for a special-ops air war like one never attempted beforea daring mission against all odds. The stage is set for war. The MiG-29 Fulcrum is the quintessential foreign fighter of our day. Iraq is the ultimate enemy. A simple twist of fate, a modern-day aerial Trojan Horse, and an unlikely air strike mission turn into an ironic plot of tactical deception in the very act of war. These two pilots are American mercenaries, fighter jocks paid to fight a secret war flying the premiere jet combat fighter in the Iraqi arsenal. Flown with two MiG-29 Fulcrums, the Soviet-made state-of-the-art ultimate enemy fighter painted in Iraqi colors it is the ultimate deception in aerial combat. This is the very story of the Second Gulf War. Sometimes an act of war is not what anyone can believethe very act of war of one nation against another that most would claim is improbable, unbelievable, unimaginable, and even impossible. For this night,they are the enemy.