Tom Cooper (author)

Tom Cooper (* 1970) is an Austrian author and illustrator AbOUT modern military aviation.

Following a career in worldwide transportation business, in which he travelled extensively in Europe and the Middle East and established contacts, he moved into writing. Cooper narrowed his earlier fascination with post-Second World War military aviation to focus on smaller air forces and conflicts, about which he has collected extensive archives of material. Concentrating on air warfare that has previously received scant attention, he specializes in investigative research on little-known African and Arab air forces, as well as the Iranian air force. His first works were published in the 1990s on the ACIG website (Air Combat Information Group; former ACIG.org, since 2013: ACIG.info).

Cooper has authored and co-authored 30 books, the first of which offered exclusive insights into the operational history of the Iranian and Iraqi air forces during the Iran-Iraq War (fought 1980-1988).

His major works are two series: 'African MiGs' (two volumes) and 'Arab MiGs' (six volumes). The former examined the development and service history of 23 air forces in Sub-Saharan Africa; the latter the operational history of major Arab air forces at wars with Israel in period 1955-1973.

Cooper has published nearly 1,000 articles in specialized press and online, including magazines like Air & Space Smithsonian, AirEnthusiast, Air Force Magazine, AirForces Monthly, Air Combat, AirPower, Combat Aircraft, Le Fana de l'Aviation, Fliegerrevue & Fliegerrevue Extra, Flight Journal, International Air Power Review, Iranian Aviation Review, Jane's DeFence Weekly, Modern War, SDI, Truppendienst, WarIsBoring.com, and World Air Power Journal.

Bibliography

- with Farzad Bishop: Iran–Iraq War in the Air, 1980–1988. Schiffer Publishing, 2002, .

- with Farzad Bishop: Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2003, .

- with Farzad Bishop: Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2004, .

- with David Nicolle: Arab MiG-19 and MiG-21 Units in Combat. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2004, .

- with Farzad Bishop, Ahmad Sadik: La Guerre Iran-Iraq: Les Combat Aériens. Part 1. Éditions LELA PRESSE, 2007.

- with Farzad Bishop, Ahmad Sadik: La Guerre Iran-Iraq: Les Combat Aériens. Part 2. Éditions LELA PRESSE, 2007.

- with Ahmad Sadik: Iraqi Fighters: 1953–2003: Camouflage and Markings. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2008, .

- with David Nicolle: Arab MiGs. Volume 1: Mikoyan i Gurevich MiG-15 and MiG-17 in Service with Air Forces of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco and Syria. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2009, .

- with Babak Taghvaee, Liam F Devlin: IRIAF 2010: The Modern Iranian Air Force. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2010, .

- with Peter Weintert, Fabian Hinz, Mark Lepko: African MiGs: MiGs and Sukhois in Service in Sub-Saharan Africa. Band 1: Angola to Ivory Coast. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2010, .

- with David Nicolle: Arab MiGs. Band 2: Supersonic Fighters: 1956–1967. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2011, .

- with Peter Weintert, Fabian Hinz, Mark Lepko: African MiGs: MiGs and Sukhois in Service in Sub-Saharan Africa. Volume 2: Madagascar to Zimbabwe. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2011, .

- with David Nicolle, Lon Nordeen, Patricia Salti: Arab MiGs. Band 3: The June 1967 War. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2012, .

- with Andreas Rupprecht: Modern Chinese Warplanes. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2012, .

- with David Nicolle, Lon Nordeen, Patricia Salti, Martin Smisek: Arab MiGs Volume 4: Attrition War 1967–1973. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2013 by Harpia Publishing, .

- Great Lakes Holocaust: The First Congo War, 1996–1997. Helion & Company, 2013, .

- Great Lakes Conflagration: The Second Congo War, 1998–2003. Helion & Company, 2013, .

- with David Nicolle, Holger Müller, Lon Nordeen, Martin Smisek: Arab MiGs. Volume 5: October 1973 War. Part 1. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2014, .

- Wings over Ogaden: The Ethiopian-Somali War, 1978–1979. Helion & Company, 2014, .

- with David Nicolle, Albert Grandolini, Lon Nordeen, Martin Smisek: Arab MiGs. Volume 6: October 1973 War. Part 2. Harpia Publishing, Houston 2015, .

- with Albert Grandolini, Arnaud Delalande: Libyan Air Wars. Part 1: 1973–1985. Helion & Company, 2015, .

- Syrian Conflagration: the Civil War, 2011–2013. Helion & Company, 2015, .

- with Adrien Fontanellaz: Wars and Insurgencies of Uganda, 1971–1994. Helion & Company, 2016. .

- with Adrien Fontanellaz: The Rwandan Patriotic Front, 1990–1994. 2015, Helion & Company, 2016. .

- with Albert Grandolini, Arnaud Delalande: Libyan Air Wars, Part 2: 1985–1986. Helion & Company, 2016, .

- with Doug Dildy: F-15 Eagle versus MiG-23/25: Iraq 1991. Osprey Publishing Company, 2016. .

- with E. R. Hooton, Farzin Nadimi: The Iran-Iraq War, Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980 - May 1982. Helion & Company, 2016. .

- with E. R. Hooton, Farzin Nadimi: The Iran-Iraq War, Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982 - December 1986. Helion & Company, 2016. .

- with Patricia Salti: Hawker Hunters at War: Iraq and Jordan, 1958-1967. Helion & Company, 2016. .

- with David Nicolle, Gabr Ali Gabr: Wings over Sinai: The Egyptian Air Force During the Sinai War, 1956. Helion & Company, 2017. ISBN 978-1-91196-61-0.