China’s Air Force Freeing Fighters From Scripted Tactics
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Credit: RAND Corp.
In a seminal RAND Project Air Force report written over two decades ago, entitled “ Russia’s Air Power at the Crossroads,” the author concluded that the Soviet air force had achieved marked improvement in the tactical skills of its fighter pilots, yet most pilots were still “bound by a heavily...
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