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Jeeps 1941-45
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95The jeep was the most famous military vehicle of World War II, and its name has become synonymous with a whole class of military and civilian all-terrain vehicles. The jeep originated in a prewar US Army requirement for a simple, inexpensive, and robust vehicle for basic utility chores. Its simple design proved to be adaptable to a host of military... more...
Bravo Superbomb Disaster
Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. 2012; US$ 5.95Assigned as a draftee to a hydrogen-bomb test operation in the Marshall Islands, Frank Zagone gives his account of the March 1, 1954 detonation of BRAVO, a 15 megaton superbomb, the most powerful and radiologically dirty nuclear blast in U.S. history (equivalent to 1000 Hiroshima bombs). He writes about a scientific miscalculation in the... more...
Parliaments and Military Missions
Europa Law Publishing 2012; US$ 36.00Proceedings of a conference hosted by the Montesquieu Institute Maastricht on parliamentary involvement with military missions. more...
Advances in Missile Guidance, Control, and Estimation
CRC Press 2012; US$ 159.95Stringent demands on modern guided weapon systems require new approaches to guidance, control, and estimation. There are requirements for pinpoint accuracy, low cost per round, easy upgrade paths, enhanced performance in counter-measure environments, and the ability to track low-observable targets. Advances in Missile Guidance, Control, and Estimation... more...
US Navy Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom (Part One)
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95The first installment examining the US Hornet Units' participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-present). The F/A-18 Hornet in its various guises was the 'universal soldier' of OIF, with around 250 seeing combat. Flown by various squadrons and groups, the Hornet attacked a range of targets including tanks of the various Iraqi Republican Guard units... more...
Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons
Wiley 2013; US$ 134.50From the earliest days of aviation where the pilot would drop simple bombs by hand, to the highly agile, stealthy aircraft of today that can deliver smart ordnance with extreme accuracy, engineers have striven to develop the capability to deliver weapons against targets reliably, safely and with precision. Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched... more...
Mastering the Ultimate High Ground
RAND Corporation 1999; US$ 9.95Assesses the military space challenges facing the Air Force and the nation in light of the findings and recommendations of the Space Commission. The author reviews the Air Force's involvement in space since its creation as an independent service in 1947; examines the circumstances that occasioned the commission's creation and the conceptual and organizational... more...
Final Assembly and Checkout Alternatives for the Joint Strike Fighter
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This work analyzes alternative strategies for final assembly and checkout (FACO) of the Joint Strike Fighter. It found that no efficiency, effectiveness, or cost reasons exist to move FACO operations, or to split them between two sites or across multiple sites. more...
Aging Aircraft
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95To help improve the Air Force's ability to forsee the implications for safety, aircraft availability and cost of its plans to retain aircraft fleets for service lives that may last 80 years, this study measures how aircraft fleets ages relate to maintenance workloads and material consumption. more...
Innovative Development - Global Hawk and DarkStar
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Since the 1970s, efforts to develop unmanned aerial vehicles have been severely hampered by escalating costs, slipped schedules, and disappointing operational results. This text provides an evaluation of new acquisition strategies for the development of unmanned aerial vehicles. more...









