U.S. Navy Attack Aircraft, 1920-2020

U.S. Navy Attack Aircraft, 1920-2020isuniquely told from the point of view of the Navy, as understood through itspreviously-classifieddocuments.Spanninga centuryfrom the earliest airplanes conceived tooperatefrom U.S. carriers in 1920, to the current F-35Joint Strike Fighter(JSF) Both the requirements and the available technology kept changing. In many cases the Navy drove the technology. Norman Friedman is the first to take the requirements and the available technology into account to explain the choices the Navy made. The airplanes the Navy bought were always designers' attempts to meet specific demands set by the kind of warfare the Navy expected.The readersees Navy successes and failures in guessing at thefuture. This is a unique way to understand the panoply of airplanes the Navyhas relied on through the years, and why some succeeded butothersfailed.