Guided Missiles

Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : Crecy Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780859791625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book US Guided Missiles written by Bill Yenne and published by Crecy Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Back Cover: In US Guided Missiles renowned aviation historian Bill Yenne has produced, for the first time, a comprehensive guide to the widely varied United States guided missile systems that have been designated with the "M" prefix. Beginning with the 1950s MGM-1 Matador-a jet-propelled cruise missile inspired by Germany's wartime V-1 "Flying Bomb" -and the MGM-5 Corporal, evolved from the German V2 ballistic missile, US Guided Missiles charts the evolution of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) such as the Atlas, Titan, Minuteman and Peacekeeper. The Atlas and Titan later became famous as the basis for the launch vehicles that carried the first American astronauts into space. Meanwhile the Rim-2 and MIM-3 Nike Ajax had their roots in anti-aircraft missiles of World War II. Having begun with the earliest Cold War guided missiles, this book progresses through Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) such as the UGM-73 Poseidon and UGM-96 Trident, to the later cruise missiles such as the BGM-109 Tomahawk. The roster of systems includes the hugely successful air-to-air 'Sidewinder', as well as little-known and obscure missiles, and modern systems in use today including the AIM-120 AMRAAM and RIM-162 Standard Missiles. From the earliest post-war rockets, through the Cold War to modern weapons, US Guided Missiles shows how guided missile systems have changed the face of warfare, illustrated throughout with rare and previously unseen images, and with extensive appendices, this book is an essential reference for any aviation, aerospace or military historian and enthusiast.

Author : United States. Office of Armed Forces Information and Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guided Missiles and Rockets written by United States. Office of Armed Forces Information and Education and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Moore
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752466763
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigeon Guided Missiles written by James Moore and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, an American behavioural psychologist working with pigeons discovered that the birds could be trained to recognise an object and to peck at an image of it; when loaded into the nose-cone of a missile, these pecks could be translated into adjustments to the guidance fins, steering the projectile to its target. Pigeon-Guided Missiles reveals this and other fascinating tales of daring plans from history destined to change the world we live in, yet which ended in failure, or even disaster. Some became the victims of the eccentric figures behind them, others succumbed to financial and political misfortune, and a few were just too far ahead of their time. Discover why the great groundnut scheme cost British taxpayers £49 million, why the bid to build Minerva, a whole new country in the Pacific Ocean, sank, and why the first Channel Tunnel (started in 1881, over a century before the one we know today) hit a dead end.

Author : United States. Air Force. Air Training Command
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Guided Missiles written by United States. Air Force. Air Training Command and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Guided Missiles and Nuclear Weapons written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of missile and nuclear weapons systems are presented in this book which is primarily prepared as the second text of a three-volume series for students of the Navy Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the Officer Candidate School. Following an introduction to guided missiles and nuclear physics, basic principles and theories are discussed with a background of the factors affecting missile flight, airframes, missile propulsion systems, control components and systems, missile guidance, guided missile ships and systems, nuclear weapons, and atomic warfare defense. In the area of missile guidance, further explanations are made of command guidance, beam-rider methods, homing systems, preset guidance, and navigational guidance systems. Effects of nuclear weapons are also described in categories of air, surface, subsurface, underwater, underground, and high-altitude bursts as well as various kinds of damages and injuries. Besides illustrations for explanation purposes, a table of atomic weights and a glossary of general terms are provided in the appendices.

Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guided Missiles written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Army Library (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guided Missiles, Rockets and Artificial Satellites, Including Project Vanguard written by Army Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Piper
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735220395
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Girl's Guide to Missiles written by Karen Piper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant, surreal, and fearlessly honest look at growing up on one of the most secretive weapons installations on earth, by a young woman who came of age with missiles The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and--when she needed summer jobs--herself. Her dad designed the Sidewinder, which was ultimately used catastrophically in Vietnam. When her mom got tired of being a stay-at-home mom, she went to work on the Tomahawk. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, and set off down a Los Angeles freeway. Traffic was heavy, and so she stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper sketches in the belief systems--from Amway's get-rich schemes to propaganda in The Rocketeer to evangelism, along with fears of a Lemurian takeover and Charles Manson--that governed their lives. Her memoir is also a search for the truth of the past and what really brought her parents to China Lake with two young daughters, a story that reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe. Finally, A Girl's Guide to Missiles recounts the crossroads moment in a young woman's life when she finally found a way out of a culture of secrets and fear, and out of the desert.

Author : Nels A. Parson
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guided Missiles in War and Peace written by Nels A. Parson and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Engineer School Library (Fort Belvoir, Va.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guided Missiles and Rockets written by Engineer School Library (Fort Belvoir, Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: