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1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Note |
"September 1985." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Introduction -- II. The early years. Foreign efforts -- The Navy-Sperry flying bomb -- The Army-Kettering bug -- Foreign developments -- The Army-Sperry experiments -- US Navy efforts; the Kettering-General Motors, A-1 -- XBQ aircraft as aerial torpedoes -- APHRODITE: the aerial torpedo in action -- III. World War II. The German V-1 -- The American V-1 (JB-2) -- The Northrop JB-1/JB-10 -- IV. Postwar developments. Postwar adjustment -- Air Materiel Command BANSHEE -- Northrop snark -- North American Navaho -- The Martin Matador -- Navy programs -- Regulus I, Rigel, Regulus II, Triton -- The Crossbow -- The Hound Dog -- The Buck Duck -- The Bull Goose -- The Quail -- V. US cruise missiles revitalized. Advanced technology -- Remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) -- SCAD, SCAM, SCUD -- The Navy effort: general dynamics wins the SLCM contract -- ALCM -- VI. 1977 to the present. Cruise missiles and SALT -- The B-1 -- ALCM selection -- Cruise missile carrier -- Rationale for multiple cruise missile variants -- SLCM -- GLCM -- MRASM -- ALCM "C", ASALM, ATCM. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL star |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda |
| Subject |
Cruise missiles -- History.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Cruise missiles. (OCoLC)fst00884368
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Air University (U.S.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Werrell, Kenneth P. Evolution of the cruise missile. Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. : Air University, Air University Press ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Supt. of Doc., U.S.G.P.O., [1985] 9781585660056 (DLC) 85008131 (OCoLC)12022079 |
| ISBN |
9781429458320 (electronic bk.) |
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1429458321 (electronic bk.) |
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DEBBG BV040921712 |
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NZ1 13111858 |
| Gpo Item No. |
0422-K (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
D 301.26/6:C 88 |
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