This title reveals how the jet engine revolutionized aerial combat. From the end of World War II to the 1991 Gulf War, fighters have become ever more complex and expensive machines. Yet some tactics remain as valid today as they were over Germany in 1945. "Fighter Combat in the Jet Age" explains which aircraft have had the most influence on aerial warfare, why Germany developed jet fighters before Britain or the USA and how less capable Russian aircraft were able to defeat US fighters over Vietnam. Different fighters are compared and the operational methods of major air forces contrasted.