TY - BOOK AU - BRAYBROOK Roy TI - The great gamble PY - 2011/// KW - CHINA KW - INDIA KW - UNITED STATES KW - RUSSIA KW - WESTERN EUROPE N2 - Modern combat aircraft can remain in service for half a century, yet nobody can dependably predict for more than a decade into the future - the loss of value that stealth will experience, the growing role of unmanned combat aircraft, the advent of hypersonic fighters or improvements in ground-based air defence systems ER -