Yeah, Brown's writing has been panned before, but I like to read speculative stuff about potential future conflicts. After all, speculating about and preparing for future conflicts is basically what war planners do without the stilted dialogue between fictional heroes and heroines.
In Air Battle Force, Brown acknowledges the help of Beale AFB recon people, Air Force Plant 42 at Nellis AFB, and Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field on his "incredible research trip."
His presumably fictional underground air base is Battle Mountain Air National Guard base in north-central Nevada with a supposed 12,000-foot runway "in the middle of nowhere, with no air base around the monstrous strip of reinforced concrete." And no control tower.
Like his imaginary super B-52 in Flight of the Old Dog, this super plane is the EB-1C Vampire bomber, a highly modified B-1 that can be flown from the ground with no crew in the aircraft.
True, Brown is not Tom Clancy, and Clancy is not a writer for the ages either, but both have made good careers out of bringing to life present and potential future weapon systems for the general public.
If you're reading this thread, you'll enjoy Air Battle Force. It's at your library as well as local book stores.