Cruise Missiles and Modern War: Strategic and Technological Implications

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M I S S I L E S When Fieseler’s engineers perfected the V-1 ‘doodlebug’ in 1944, little could they have imagined the long term impact of their creativity. The V-1 became the forerunner of a family of weapons which has decisively infl uenced many aspects of modern air warfare since then, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The media defi nition of a cruise missile is any weapo...

The Cruise Missile Guidance Problem

In airframe technology, designs have become progressively more compact, to accommodate internal and external carriage by aircraft, launch tubes on warships or torpedo tubes in submarines. Propulsion has evolved from simple pulse jets, through turbojets and liquid propellant rockets or ramjets to the current mix of: turbojets for subsonic tactical cruise missiles, turbofans for subsonic strategi...

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE Newport, R.I. THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE IN WORLD WAR II - SOME OPERATIONAL ART CONSIDERATIONS by AlanRWall

of THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE IN WORLD WAR II SOME OPERATIONAL ART CONSIDERATIONS The World War II V-l and V-2 attacks by Germany were the first effective use of theater missiles, and the first instance of a requirement for theater missile defense (TMD). The Allied response to German cruise (V-l) and ballistic (V-2) missile attacks incorporated all the elements of modern TMD concepts—Active Defens...

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Homing Missile Guidance and Control

2 INTRODUCTION The guided missile provides military forces with the capability to deliver munitions rapidly and precisely to selected targets at a distance. This capability establishes an effective means to conduct a wide variety of military missions that range from denying the enemy communications or supply routes, to establishing air superiority, to performing anti-ship cruise missile or ball...

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