"All the missiles work"
Subtitle: technological dislocations and military innovation : a case study in US Air Force air-to-air armament, post-World War II through Operation Rolling Thunder
By: Steven A. Fino, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
Series: Drew paper -- no. 12
Publisher: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781585662487
Subjects: Air-to-air rockets; History; Guided missiles; Military Airplanes; Armament; Technological innovations; Weapons systems; United States. Air Force; United States
Other titles: Technological dislocations and military innovation, a case study in US Air Force air-to-air armament, post-World War II through Operation Rolling Thunder
Table of contents: title: Foundations of technology; title: Technological dislocations; title: Rise of the missile mafia; title: The gun resurrected; title: An interim solution; title: Military innovation; title: Conclusion; title: Abbreviations; title: Illustrations; title: Technological momentum; title: The putative tipping point between social constructivism and technological determinism; title: Edge dislocation; title: Technological dislocations; title: Historical analysis and agency.