Frédéric Zumbiehl

In this adventure Buck Danny and his friends are engaged in monitoring the middle-eastern country (fictional but resembling Iran a lot) after US loses highly expensive F22 airplane to unknown means.
To reconnoiter the area Buck decides to use airplanes not in US inventory so they switch to the Su27 and variants.

Of course as it usually goes with black ops nothing is what it seems and ending was truly unexpected.

Again, art is fantastic, story shows that it is not easy to just organize the squad and move them from A to B, you need pilots capable of flying given machines, base needs to be established and protected... very realistic techno thriller story.

Highly recommended to all fans of Tanhuy and Laverdure-like stories and military aviation in general.… (meer)

Japanese surveillance plane gets shot down in the waters contested by China and Japan. Buck Danny and his team will soon find themselves in the middle fo the intrigue after it becomes obvious that shadowy criminal organization will give its best to start the conflict between Japan and China byt involving US carrier group in the conflict.

Again depictions of planes and procedures (while a little bit SF for this story due to advancements of air force technology) are excellent. Issues with high seas and carrier operations, problems with detecting stealth airplanes by carrier group and introduction of UCAVs and how they are operated, as is case with Buck Danny authors try to be as realistic as possible.

Do not ethat this is first part of the story. It concludes in "Defcon One".

Recommended to all fans of action, adventure and military aviation.… (meer)