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Yenne, Bill, 1949- author.
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Cruise missiles -- United States -- History.
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The complete history of U.S. cruise missiles : from Bug to Snark to Tomahawk / Bill Yenne.
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Yenne, Bill, 1949- author.
Forest Lake, MN : Specialty Press, [2018]
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Cruise missiles -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9781580072564 (paperback) :
1580072569 (paperback)
Description:
204 pages illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm.
Contents:
From bug to buzz bomb -- The Kettering bug -- Radio control -- Target drones -- The revival of assault drones -- The first operational American assault drones -- Arnold and Kettering, together again -- Project Perilous -- The buzz bomb -- American sons of the buzz bomb -- Looking back on three decades -- The first Air Force cruise missiles -- Army versus Air Force -- Cultural issues -- Air Force versus Navy -- Designation systems -- Notes on nukes -- The Matador -- The <ace -- US Navy sea-launched cruise missiles -- Budget background -- Regulus -- Regulus II -- Intercontinental cruise missiles -- The Navaho -- Imaginary creatures -- The Snark -- Project Pluto -- Nothing but a Hound Dog -- The rascal -- The Hound Dog -- SAC units operational with the Hound Dog -- An unexpectedly long phaseout -- Decoy missiles -- The air-launched cruise missile -- SCAD and SCAM -- TERCOM -- The development process -- An unexpected flyoff -- Cold warrior deployed -- The attack of the CALCM -- The birth of the Tomahawk -- Defining the US Navy cruise missile -- Flyoffs -- First generation Tomahawk variants -- A second source -- The Tomahawk in detail -- DSMAC -- The cruise missile that won the Cold War -- Defining the ground-launched cruise missile -- Developing the ground-launched cruise missile -- Deploying the ground-launched cruise missile -- Soviet reaction -- The GLCM legacy -- The Tomahawk goes to sea -- The Tomahawk goes to war -- Tomahawk Block III -- Wars in the Balkans -- The troubled life of the advanced cruise missile -- Tomahawk in a new century -- Twenty-first century warrior -- The Block IV TacTom -- Continuing combat operations -- The end of TLAM-N -- The rebirth of TASM as MST -- Twenty-first century developments -- JASSM -- Anti-ship cruise missiles -- Going hypersonic -- The long-range standoff weapon -- Appendix: Specifications tables.
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"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.
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