"Author James Mills presents an amazing, detailed history review of the German surface-to-air guided missile technology development." —Military Review World War II saw the appearance of numerous revolutionary armaments on both sides of the conflict that would radically change the nature of warfare, from jet aircraft to the ballistic missile and the atomic bomb. The greatest conflagration in history also saw the conception of the first surface-to-air guided missile systems, technology pioneered by German scientists and engineers through an extensive development program which ran from 1942 to 1945. Although the program did not achieve its main objective – to introduce a functional weapon system into the Luftwaffe air defense network – German research and development in most aspects of the technology was ahead of comparable research in the United Kingdom and the United States. The history of the transfer of German SAM technology to the Allies after 1945 has previously been overshadowed by the well-published transfers of the V-1 and V-2 guided missiles. This book presents the first complete history of Germany’s wartime development of surface-to-air missile (SAM) technology, how the Allies acquired this secret research towards the end of World War II in Europe and in the early postwar period, and how they then exploited this knowledge.

Radio Remote-Control and Telemetry and their Application to Missiles provide information pertinent to the developments in the design of remote-control and telemetry equipment. This book discusses the problems that occur in remote-control and telemetry, together with various methods that have been used to solve them, in the field of missiles. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the various types of modulation. This text then examines the nature of information and coding, which is intended as a means of gaining a logical grasp of the phenomena in general. Other chapters consider the problems of propagation and of aerials, which are important topics when the rocket is intended not only to reach great distances, but to follow different flight paths and altitudes. The final chapter deals with the devices for remote-control and telemetry. This book is a valuable resource for electronics and radio engineers as well as for technicians.

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