Author: Army War College (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-aircraft guns
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Notes on Anti-aircraft Guns
Author: Army War College (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-aircraft guns
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-aircraft guns
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery
Author: Norman Friedman
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321775
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book does for naval anti-aircraft defence what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery ÛÒ it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons themselves, how they were placed on ships, and how this reflected the tactical concepts of naval AA defence. As would be expected from any Friedman book, it offers striking insights ÛÒ he argues, for example, that the Royal Navy, so often criticised for lack of 'air-mindedness', was actually the most alert to the threat, but that its systems were inadequate not because they were too primitive but because they tried to achieve too much.??The book summarises the experience of WW2, particularly in theatres where the aerial danger was greatest, and a concluding chapter looks at post-1945 developments that drew on wartime lessons. All important guns, directors and electronics are represented in close-up photos and drawings, and lengthy appendices detail their technical data. It is, simply, another superb contribution to naval technical history by its leading exponent.
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321775
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book does for naval anti-aircraft defence what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery ÛÒ it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons themselves, how they were placed on ships, and how this reflected the tactical concepts of naval AA defence. As would be expected from any Friedman book, it offers striking insights ÛÒ he argues, for example, that the Royal Navy, so often criticised for lack of 'air-mindedness', was actually the most alert to the threat, but that its systems were inadequate not because they were too primitive but because they tried to achieve too much.??The book summarises the experience of WW2, particularly in theatres where the aerial danger was greatest, and a concluding chapter looks at post-1945 developments that drew on wartime lessons. All important guns, directors and electronics are represented in close-up photos and drawings, and lengthy appendices detail their technical data. It is, simply, another superb contribution to naval technical history by its leading exponent.
Notes on Anti-aircraft Guns
Author: Army War College (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-aircraft guns
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-aircraft guns
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Coast Artillery Journal
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Archie to Sam
Author: Kenneth R. Werrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780399751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Archie to SAM is an update to Kenneth Werrell's Archie, Flak, AAA, and SAM published in 1988. He continues to study ground-based air defense systems in new events, including the Gulf War. In rescuing ground-based air defense systems from long neglect, Werrell delves into such topics as tactics, leadership, change, and innovation
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780399751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Archie to SAM is an update to Kenneth Werrell's Archie, Flak, AAA, and SAM published in 1988. He continues to study ground-based air defense systems in new events, including the Gulf War. In rescuing ground-based air defense systems from long neglect, Werrell delves into such topics as tactics, leadership, change, and innovation
ARCHIE, FLAK, AAA, And SAM: A Short Operational History Of Ground-Based Air Defense [Illustrated Edition]
Author: Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786253712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Includes over 90 illustrations ‘Dr Kenneth Werrell’s history of ground-based air defense performs an important service both to scholarship and, more important, to the defense of our nation’s freedom. It is perhaps human nature that we tend over time to lose sight of the lessons of the past, especially when they do not conform to certain cherished preconceptions of ours. That such myopia can be dangerous, if not downright disastrous, Doctor Werrell’s study richly illustrates. Without sentimentalism, he chronicles a pattern of lessons learned and too quickly forgotten, as the marvel of air power was reminded again and again of its limitations and vulnerability. In Korea and in Vietnam, the American people were stripped of their illusions of national and technical omnipotence. The unhappy outcome of those two conflicts were doubly lamentable because the lessons of World War II were—or should have been—fresh in our minds. In that world war, as Doctor Werrell shows, relatively cheap ground-based air defense did make a difference: at Ploesti, at Antwerp, and at the Rhine bridges.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786253712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Includes over 90 illustrations ‘Dr Kenneth Werrell’s history of ground-based air defense performs an important service both to scholarship and, more important, to the defense of our nation’s freedom. It is perhaps human nature that we tend over time to lose sight of the lessons of the past, especially when they do not conform to certain cherished preconceptions of ours. That such myopia can be dangerous, if not downright disastrous, Doctor Werrell’s study richly illustrates. Without sentimentalism, he chronicles a pattern of lessons learned and too quickly forgotten, as the marvel of air power was reminded again and again of its limitations and vulnerability. In Korea and in Vietnam, the American people were stripped of their illusions of national and technical omnipotence. The unhappy outcome of those two conflicts were doubly lamentable because the lessons of World War II were—or should have been—fresh in our minds. In that world war, as Doctor Werrell shows, relatively cheap ground-based air defense did make a difference: at Ploesti, at Antwerp, and at the Rhine bridges.
Journal of the United States Artillery
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Emerging Shield
Author: Kenneth Schaffel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
40-mm Automatic Gun M1 (AA) and 40-mm Antiaircraft Gun Carriages M2 and M2A1
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiaircraft guns
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiaircraft guns
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A 4F Goes to War with the 100th Infantry Division
Author: John C. Angier
Publisher: Merriam Press
ISBN: 1576380920
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Merriam Press
ISBN: 1576380920
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description