Download or read book Air Warfare in the Missile Age written by Lon O. Nordeen and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lon O. Nordeen has completely updated his 1985 chronicle of military aviation’s evolving role in warfare, now covering the major conflicts of the past four decades. He presents the historical and political background of each conflict and includes in-depth discussions of the aircraft, weapons, tactics, training, new systems, and other factors that influenced the outcome of each war. New and existing chapters have been enhanced with information based on recently declassified material—especially regarding Vietnam—and new sources in Egypt, Israel, and the former Soviet Union. As “smart” bombs have become more successful in reducing the risks for pilots and frontline troops, air-missile warfare has become the central player in military conflicts. Air Warfare in the Missile Age, Second Edition, is a valuable resource for understanding the evolution of modern air warfare.
Download or read book Air to Air Missile Directory written by Hugh Harkins and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers all of the major radar and infrared guided air to air missiles in current and projected near-term service. Emphasis is placed upon modern missile systems, which entered service in the 1990's and early 2000's, although all major missile systems currently in service are covered including older types, which have been serving since the 1970's. The combat use of the various missiles systems over the past three decades is also covered.
Download or read book Review and Evaluation of the Air Force Hypersonic Technology Program written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-09-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was undertaken in response to a request by the U.S. Air Force that the National Research Council (NRC) examine whether the technologies that underlie the concept of a hypersonic, air-launched, air-breathing, hydrocarbon-fueled missile with speeds up to Mach 81 can be demonstrated in time to be initially operational by 2015. To conduct the study, the NRC appointed the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Air Force Hypersonic Technology Program, under the auspices of the Air Force Science and Technology Board.
Download or read book AIR WARFARE MISSILE AG ED 2E written by Nordeen Lon O and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lon O. Nordeen has completely updated his 1985 chronicle of military aviation's evolving role in warfare, now covering the major conflicts of the past four decades. He presents the historical and political background of each conflict and includes in-depth discussions of the aircraft, weapons, tactics, training, new systems, and other factors that influenced the outcome of each war. New and existing chapters have been enhanced with information based on recently declassified material--especially regarding Vietnam--and new sources in Egypt, Israel, and the former Soviet Union. As "smart" bombs have become more successful in reducing the risks for pilots and frontline troops, air-missile warfare has become the central player in military conflicts. "Air Warfare in the Missile Age, Second Edition, " is a valuable resource for understanding the evolution of modern air warfare. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
Download or read book Principles of Modern Radar written by Mark A. Richards and published by SciTech Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles is a comprehensive text for courses in radar systems and technology, a professional training textbook for formal in-house courses and for new hires; a reference for ongoing study following a radar short course and a self-study and professional reference book.
Download or read book The Air Force and the National Guided Missile Program written by Max Rosenberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This AFCHO monograph covers USAF participation in the national guided missile program that slowly evolved between the closing months of World War II and the beginning of the Korean War. The first generation of missile projects laid the groundwork for a later and much more successful range of weapons. Navaho and Rascal proved the technologies that were later used for the AGM-28 Hound Dog and AGM-69 SRAM missiles. These same technologies later gave birth to the current generation of cruise missiles. These can be seen as a successful implementation of the design concepts first developed in the late 1940s. Today, in the second decade of the 21st century, pilotless aircraft are a widely used and deadly part of the American airborne arsenal. Technology has caught up with the visions of those who had conceived the first generation of guided missiles in the 1940s.
Download or read book HPCR Manual on International Law Applicable to Air and Missile Warfare written by Harvard School of Public Health. Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Manual provides an up-to-date restatement of existing international law applicable to the conduct of air and missile warfare.
Download or read book Accelerated Production written by John C. McLaurin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Method of Increasing the Kinematic Boundary of Air to Air Missiles Using an Optimal Control Approach written by Robert D. Broadston and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current missile guidance laws are generally based on one of several forms of proportional navigation (PN). While PN laws are robust, analytically tractable, and computationally simple, they are only optimal in a narrow operating regime. Consequently, they may not optimize engagement range, time to intercept, or endgame kinetic energy. The advent of miniaturized high speed computers has made it possible to compute optimal trajectories for missiles using command mid-course guidance as well as autonomous onboard guidance. This thesis employs a simplified six degree of freedom (6DOF) flight model and a full aerodynamic 6DOF flight model to analyze the performance of both PN and optimal guidance laws in a realistic simulation environment which accounts for the effects of drag and control system time constants on the missile's performance. Analysis of the missile's kinematic boundary is used as the basis of comparison. A missile's kinematic boundary can be described as the maximum theoretical range at which it can intercept a target assuming no noise in its sensors. This analysis is immediately recognizable to the warfighter as an engagement envelope. The guidance laws are tested against non-maneuvering and maneuvering aircraft targets and against a simulation of a cruise missile threat. An application of the 6DOF model for a theater ballistic missile interceptor is presented.
Download or read book Missile written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Missile A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Missile Chapter 2: Rocket-propelled grenade Chapter 3: Anti-tank guided missile Chapter 4: Ballistic missile Chapter 5: Projectile Chapter 6: R4M Chapter 7: Ruhrstahl X-4 Chapter 8: Air-to-air missile Chapter 9: Aerial warfare Chapter 10: Ranged weapon (II) Answering the public top questions about missile. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Missile.
Download or read book Component Breakout of the Advanced Medium Range Air To Air Missiles written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During our audit of "Hotline Allegations Concerning Contract Pricing of Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles," Project No. 6AL-8007.00, we initiated this audit to follow up on Inspector General, DoD, Report No. 91-061, "Quick-Reaction Report on Component Breakout of the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile Program," March 14,1991. The Air Force acquired 7,342 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs), excluding foreign military sales, through FY 1996 at a total cost of $6.6 billion in procurement funds. The Air Force planned to acquire 3,713 AM A AMs for FYs 1997 through 2009 at a cost of $2.9 billion.
Download or read book All the Missiles Work Technological Dislocations and Military Innovation Case Study in U S Air Force Air To Air Armament Post World War II Through Rolling Thunder Vietnam Guns on Planes written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent book by the U.S. Air Force examines the role of technology in military innovation, with a case study of the false faith of the military in air-to-air missiles and the subsequent installation of an external cannon gun on the F-4 Phantom jet aircraft. Some subjects covered include Schriever, Eisenhower, LeMay, Momyer, and the Vietnam War.When Airmen think about technology, it is typically in terms of how best to achieve military effects. This paper explores the deeper and more crucial issues of how organizations and individuals resist, embrace, and shape technological innovation. Steam-powered warships, machine guns, aircraft carriers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and remotely piloted aircraft all threatened established practice and faced the resistance of entrenched bureaucracies and dogmatic tradition. Yet such rigidity of mind and habit contrasts with the imperative of achieving military advantage and the sparkling allure of the new, the scientific, and the powerful. Lt Col Steve Fino explores the tension between such technological skepticism and technological exuberance--a tension that "weaves itself through the fabric of US military history," with his concept of technological dislocation. In this light, he examines how various factors can dislocate the predicted evolutionary pathway of emerging or even established technologies and steer them in new, perhaps surprising, directions.The development of air-to-air armament in the initial decades of the jet age provides an intriguing case study of technological dislocation. On this stage, various actors such as fighter pilots, senior leaders, institutional preferences, cutting-edge technologies, and enemy combatants played out the first scenes of aerial combat's missile age. The Air Force's inflated rhetoric on missile efficacy, based on misassumptions and technological exuberance, was punctured by the failure of missiles in actual combat. Still, the institution persisted in its belief that "all the missiles worked." Fino examines why senior leaders--some of them renowned combat pilots--clung to this fiction despite dramatic failures spotlighted in Korea and Vietnam. Nevertheless, a handful of relatively junior officers effected a dislocation from the dominant missile technology and installed an external air-to-air cannon on the F-4 Phantom, an aircraft previously exalted as a missile-only guarantor of air superiority. Their clashes with the enemy and the bureaucracy created long-lasting results and demonstrated how the concepts of technological skepticism, exuberance, and dislocation instruct military innovation. Indeed, this study provides today's leaders and strategists much needed insights into how to bring about change and create advantage in the swirling complexity of modern technology and bureaucracy.
Download or read book Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering written by Warren J. Boord and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering fills a need for those seeking insight into the design procedures of the air and missile defense system engineering process. Specifically aimed at policy planners, engineers, researchers, and consultants, it presents a balanced approach to negating a target in both natural and electronic attack environmen
Download or read book Guide to Rockets Missiles and Satellites written by Homer Edward Newell and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Datelines a History of Navy Missile Testing at Point Mugu California written by Maxwell White and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surface To Air Missiles of the People s Republic of China written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: S-300, HQ-61, QW-1 Vanguard, PL-12, TY-90, FN-6, HQ-9, LY-60 / FD-60 / PL10, HN-5, HQ-7, PL-8, PL-9, QW-2 Vanguard 2, KS-1, TA580/TAS5380, HQ-2J. Excerpt: The S-300 is a series of Russian long range surface-to-air missile systems produced by NPO Almaz, all based on the initial S-300P version. The S-300 system was developed to defend against aircraft and cruise missiles for the Soviet Air Defence Forces. Subsequent variations were developed to intercept ballistic missiles. The S-300 was jointly produced by Almaz with Samsung Group of South Korea since 1993. The S-300 system was first deployed by the Soviet Union in 1979, designed for the air defense of large industrial and administrative facilities, military bases, and control of airspace against enemy strike aircraft. The project-managing developer of the S-300 is Russian Almaz corporation (government owned, aka "KB-1") which is currently a part of "Almaz-Antei" Air Defense Concern. S-300 uses missiles developed by MKB "Fakel" design bureau (a separate government corporation, aka "OKB-2"). The S-300 is regarded as one of the most potent anti-aircraft missile systems currently fielded. Its radars have the ability to simultaneously track up to 100 targets while engaging up to 12. S-300 deployment time is five minutes. The S-300 missiles are sealed rounds and require no maintenance over their lifetime. An evolved version of the S-300 system is the S-400 (NATO reporting name SA-21), entering limited service in 2004. Numerous versions have since emerged with different missiles, improved radars, better resistance to countermeasures, longer range and better capability against short-range ballistic missiles or targets flying at very low altitude. There are currently three main variations. Two S-300-PM missile TEL and a 'Flap Lid' radarThe S-300P (transliterated from...
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:
