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Cuban Migs - The Defenders of Castro's Air Force (Paperback)
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Cuban Migs - The Defenders of Castro's Air Force (Paperback)
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The Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and
little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich
(MiG) fighters as its main fighter aircraft, both in the defence of
Cuban territory against the threat of US invasion and in support of
Cuban leader's efforts to export their revolutionary ideals. The
book casts an unprecedented look at the introduction and
utilisation of all MiG models in Cuban service, since their arrival
before the Cuban Missile Crisis, to current times, going through
all of the conflicts in which Cuba was involved, from incidents
with the Dominican Republic ('Operacion Pico') and the Bahamas, to
its entanglements in wars in Vietnam, Syria, Guinea, Southern
Yemen, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua and the recent apprehension
of 'export goods' to North Korea in the Panama Canal. The story of
military aviation in Cuba before the arrival of the MiGs is also
briefly presented, from the beginning of their air corps and its
role in the political crises that affected the country, in Castro's
Revolution and the ill-fated attempted invasion at the Bay of Pigs,
contextualising the times when they happened. This is the result of
extensive research using Cuban publications, documents, interviews
with former pilots, historians and contributions by veteran Cuban
airmen both in exile and residing in their homeland. The book is
richly illustrated with over 170 photographs and colour profiles
detailing the history of all twenty models of MiG fighters operated
by Cuba from 1962 to the present.
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