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Captain Rosenkranz's Vipers in the Storm is a vivid white-knuckles account of what it's like to carry out modern air-combat missions. Your reality consists of a desert night illuminated only by the flash of enemy antiaircraft artillery bursts and the burn of surface-to-air missiles. You put your life in a piece of high-tech metal hurtling near the speed of sound. You trust your instruments, your instincts, your training. But you know that the task is inherently impossible: to manage and master aviation technologies capable of outperforming any human being.
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"Rosenkranz deftly tells of his own mixed feelings about possible combat...offers a near-epic account of the flight of his unit...describes with insight and clarity the feelings of the men who have been trained to fight a war but have never done so...a vivid picture of an airman's service in the last gulf war."
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THE INSIDE STORY OF THE DESERT STORM AERIAL WARFARE, TOLD BY ONE OF ITS HEROES
During Operation Desert Storm, the author piloted his F-16 in 30 combat missions, from the bombing of Iraq's nuclear research facility to attacks on the notorious "Highway of Death." In Vipers in the Storm, he recounts these experiences in searing "you-are-there" detail, giving readers one of the most riveting depictions ever written of man and machine at war.
Vipers in the Storm accurately reflects the decisive role that the United States Air Force played in defeating Saddam Hussein's military and liberating Kuwait. It is a superb account of modern air warfare. Most of all, it is a reminder of how enormously fortunate we are that there are young Americans like Keith Rosenkranz able and willing to defend the nation.
-- from the Foreword by Vice President Dick Cheney
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- PublisherTurner Pub
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 157036379X
- ISBN 13 9781570363795
- BindingHardcover
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