An edition of The complete history of U.S. cruise missiles
(2018)
The complete history of U.S. cruise missiles
from Kettering's 1920s' Bug & 1950's Snark to today's Tomahawk
by Bill Yenne
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"This book tells the complete history of U.S. Cruise Missiles from the very beginning (the Bug) to the Snark and up to the Tomahawk."--Provided by publisher.
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The complete history of U.S. cruise missiles: from Kettering's 1920s' Bug & 1950's Snark to today's Tomahawk
2018
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1580072569 9781580072564
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Table of Contents
From bug to buzz bomb
The Kettering bug
Radio control
Target drones
The revival of assault drones
The first operational American assault drones
Arnold and Kettering, together again
Project Perilous
The buzz bomb
American sons of the buzz bomb
Looking back on three decades
The first Air Force cruise missiles
Army versus Air Force
Cultural issues
Air Force versus Navy
Designation systems
Notes on nukes
The Matador
The <ace
US Navy sea-launched cruise missiles
Budget background
Regulus
Regulus II
Intercontinental cruise missiles
The Navaho
Imaginary creatures
The Snark
Project Pluto
Nothing but a Hound Dog
The rascal
The Hound Dog
SAC units operational with the Hound Dog
An unexpectedly long phaseout
Decoy missiles
The air-launched cruise missile
SCAD and SCAM
TERCOM
The development process
An unexpected flyoff
Cold warrior deployed
The attack of the CALCM
The birth of the Tomahawk
Defining the US Navy cruise missile
Flyoffs
First generation Tomahawk variants
A second source
The Tomahawk in detail
DSMAC
The cruise missile that won the Cold War
Defining the ground-launched cruise missile
Developing the ground-launched cruise missile
Deploying the ground-launched cruise missile
Soviet reaction
The GLCM legacy
The Tomahawk goes to sea
The Tomahawk goes to war
Tomahawk Block III
Wars in the Balkans
The troubled life of the advanced cruise missile
Tomahawk in a new century
Twenty-first century warrior
The Block IV TacTom
Continuing combat operations
The end of TLAM-N
The rebirth of TASM as MST
Twenty-first century developments
JASSM
Anti-ship cruise missiles
Going hypersonic
The long-range standoff weapon
Appendix: Specifications tables.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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