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Weapons of choice : the development of precision guided munitions /
History and deployment of smart weapons. In the United States, efforts to develop precision guided munitions-PGMs-began during the First World War and resulted in an 'aerial torpedo' by the 1920s. While World War II was dominated by large-scale strategic bombing-essentially throwing out to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | History and deployment of smart weapons. In the United States, efforts to develop precision guided munitions-PGMs-began during the First World War and resulted in an 'aerial torpedo' by the 1920s. While World War II was dominated by large-scale strategic bombing-essentially throwing out tons of free-falling munitions in the hope they hit something important-both sides in the war worked to develop airborne munitions that could be steered toward a target. However after that war, U.S. national security policy focused on the atomic bomb, hardly a weapon that needed to be. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817381899 0817381899 |