The complete history of U.S. cruise missiles
Subtitle: from Kettering's 1920s' Bug & 1950's Snark to today's Tomahawk
By: Bill Yenne
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781580072564
Subjects: Cruise missiles; History
Other titles: U.S. cruise missiles; US cruise missiles; United States cruise missiles
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From bug to buzz bomb; title: The Kettering bug; title: Radio control; title: Target drones; title: The revival of assault drones; title: The first operational American assault drones; title: Arnold and Kettering, together again; title: Project Perilous; title: The buzz bomb; title: American sons of the buzz bomb; title: Looking back on three decades; title: The first Air Force cruise missiles; title: Army versus Air Force; title: Cultural issues; title: Air Force versus Navy; title: Designation systems; title: Notes on nukes; title: The Matador; title: The <ace; title: US Navy sea-launched cruise missiles; title: Budget background; title: Regulus; title: Regulus II; title: Intercontinental cruise missiles; title: The Navaho; title: Imaginary creatures; title: The Snark; title: Project Pluto; title: Nothing but a Hound Dog; title: The rascal; title: The Hound Dog; title: SAC units operational with the Hound Dog; title: An unexpectedly long phaseout; title: Decoy missiles; title: The air-launched cruise missile; title: SCAD and SCAM; title: TERCOM; title: The development process; title: An unexpected flyoff; title: Cold warrior deployed; title: The attack of the CALCM; title: The birth of the Tomahawk; title: Defining the US Navy cruise missile; title: Flyoffs; title: First generation Tomahawk variants; title: A second source; title: The Tomahawk in detail; title: DSMAC; title: The cruise missile that won the Cold War; title: Defining the ground-launched cruise missile; title: Developing the ground-launched cruise missile; title: Deploying the ground-launched cruise missile; title: Soviet reaction; title: The GLCM legacy; title: The Tomahawk goes to sea; title: The Tomahawk goes to war; title: Tomahawk Block III; title: Wars in the Balkans; title: The troubled life of the advanced cruise missile; title: Tomahawk in a new century; title: Twenty-first century warrior; title: The Block IV TacTom; title: Continuing combat operations; title: The end of TLAM-N; title: The rebirth of TASM as MST; title: Twenty-first century developments; title: JASSM; title: Anti-ship cruise missiles; title: Going hypersonic; title: The long-range standoff weapon; title: Appendix: Specifications tables.