WWIII
Author: Slater, Ian
ISBN: 9780345470416
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Mar 1995
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
b>From Japan to Malaysia, the Pacific Rim is ablaze-in a hell called . . . WORLD WAR III/b>br>b>/b>br>b>"Superior to the Tom Clancy genre, with characters that came alive . . . and the military aspect far more realistic."-i>The Spectator/i>/b>br>br>b>In the Pacific-/b>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).br>br>b>In Europe-/b>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.br>br>So it begins . . .
ISBN: 9780345470416
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Mar 1995
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback / softback
b>From Japan to Malaysia, the Pacific Rim is ablaze-in a hell called . . . WORLD WAR III/b>br>b>/b>br>b>"Superior to the Tom Clancy genre, with characters that came alive . . . and the military aspect far more realistic."-i>The Spectator/i>/b>br>br>b>In the Pacific-/b>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).br>br>b>In Europe-/b>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.br>br>So it begins . . .
