US guided missiles the definitive reference guide
Illustrated with excellent archival and contemporary photography, this book features every single U.S. guided missile, with special coverage of the famous jet-powered winged missiles of the 1950s cult Cold War.
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Manchester, UK
Crécy
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- World War II
- Genesis of the American Missile Program
- Toward a ballistic missile
- Categorizing ballistic missiles
- History of missile designation systems
- Rivalry breeds separate missile acquisition
- Rivalry breeds separate missile designations
- Still making changes
- Missiles in this book
- Sidebar: Making sense of missile designations
- Missiles: MGM-1 through MQM-175
- Addendum 1: Selected classic guided missiles
- Addendum 2: Operational guided anti-missile missiles
- Addendum 3: R for rocket designation lineage
- Appendix 1: Missiles designated under the joint designation system of 1947
- Appendix 2: US Air Force missiles designated under the 1951 and 1955 designation systems
- Appendix 3: US Army missiles designated under the 1947, 1955 and 1963 designation systems
- Appendix 4: Standard missile checklist
- Appendix 5: Selected acronyms (including designation prefixes)