The book, Modern Air Combat, explores the aircraft, tactics and weapons employed in arial warfare today.  This book is broken down into the following three sections: 1) The technology of air warfare; 2) The aircraft and their weapons and 3) Air combat tactics.  The technicalities of modern air warfare have been laid-out in a manner that is easily understood by both the lay enthusiast and the wing commander alike.  The centerpiece of the book, Modern Air Combat, is almost 100 pages of elaborate full-color artwork depicting the most potent modern fighters and attack aircraft illustrated along with combinations of possible weapon loads in detailed in scale.  A separate section reviews the tactics utilized in modern air-to-air combat.  This book section explores the fighting effectiveness of the aircraft, the threats and tasks, methods and manoevers, basic aerodynamics and pilot training.  This book features the following: 1) Almost 300 color and black and white photographs; 2) 120 explanatory diagrams; 3) Over 135 annotated line drawings and 4) 46 full-color aircraft and weapons drawings.  This book is 224 pages and is in excellent condition.  The authors are Bill Gunston and Mike Spick.  Edition published in 1983.