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Title From fabric wings to supersonic fighters and drones : a history of military aviation on both sides of the North-West frontier
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Call No 358.4140 CLO
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Publisher Name Helion & Company Ltd
Publishing Year 2015
Edition 1st
Pages 218
Price 0.00 PKR
Text Language English
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Description "The famed, and dangerous Northwest Frontier of India was a rocky, mountainous land between Afghanistan and the settled districts of the Punjab. A land of hardened Pashtun warriors, fervent clerics and too little water, once the problem of the British Indian Army and the Scouts it is now the problem of the Army of Pakistan and the Frontier Corps. Military aviation above the frontier has had little real attention, except for a number of lighthearted memoirs about the challenges of flying antiquat
Keywords India-Military Airplanes; India-Military Aviation History; Aviation-guerrilla War; Pink War; Waziristan-Air Control; Kabul Airlift; Air Power Frontier