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In the pantheon of military aviation history, few stories capture the imagination quite like the secretive operations of the US Air Force's 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, better known as the "Red Eagles." Established in the late 1970s, the Red Eagles' mission was to train US pilots against Soviet MiGs using actual aircraft obtained through…

From the mid-1960s until the end of the Cold War, the United States Air Force acquired and flew Russian-made MiG jets, eventually creating a secret squadron dedicated to exposing American fighter pilots to enemy MiGs. In this program, MiGs were secretly acquired and made air-worthy, before selected ace pilots were trained to fly the assets as they were flown by America's enemies. This book tells the fascinating story of the Red Eagles, using recently declassified information and firsthand ac...

Clandestine programs race to pluck foreign aircraft, missiles, and more in order to exploit them by reverse engineering and other means.

Hands on training in a captured enemy aircraft.

Pek described the wide-eye expressions he saw on the faces of pilots as they encountered a real, live MiG for the first time.

The sister site of the enigmatic Area 51, Area 52, is lesser-known as the Tonopah Test Range, which is ground in reality as a testing center of the US military technological research.

AREA 51, the highly classified US Air Force base which has for years been at the center of a conspiracy among alien fanatics and ufologists, has a les

How Americans secretly used Soviet aircraft Nobody in the USSR knew that its potential enemy had dozens of Soviet fighters in combat service. Aerial combat training is an essential element in the training of military pilots. It is for this purpose that the air forces of many countries set up dedicated squadrons, so-called “aggressors”, whose task it is to imitate the enemy during exercises. Usually, the role of enemy fighters is performed by domestically manufactured aircraf...