Inside the Stealth Bomber
Author: Bill Sweetman
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781610606899
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Author: Bill Sweetman
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781610606899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William B. O'Connor
Publisher: Zenith Press
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0760341354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pilot recounts his experiences flying NATO missions in a F-117 stealth fighter over Kosovo in 1999.
Author: Ole Steen Hansen
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2005-07
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9780736852555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An in-depth look at the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, with detailed cross-section diagrams, action photos, and fascinating facts"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Bill Scott
Publisher: Aero Pub Incorporated
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780830638222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development and testing of the B-2 stealth bomber, discusses the origins of its revolutionary design, and assesses its performance
Author: John Hamilton
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1614784302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title explores the development and use of the nearly undetectable B-2 Spirit heavy bomber. Readers will follow the history of its origins and the development of its stealth technology. Chapters detail the aircraft's military and performance specifications as well as its features and advantages in the field, such as its wing design, its concealed engines, its radar signature, and its powerful bombs. Readers will also learn about the Spirit's use in the Kosovo War, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, and other significant combat and peacekeeping missions. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author: Peter Westwick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0190677449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story behind the technology that revolutionized both aeronautics, and the course of history.On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen airplanes appeared in the skies over Baghdad. Or, rather, didn't appear. They arrived in the dark, their black outlines cloaking them from sight. More importantly, their odd, angular shapes, which made them look like flying origami, rendered themundetectable to Iraq's formidable air defenses. Stealth technology, developed during the decades before Desert Storm, had arrived. To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, this seemingly ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the UnitedStates could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which theimpossible was achieved.At heart, Stealth is a tale of two aerospace companies, Lockheed and Northrop, and their fierce competition - with each other and with themselves - to obtain what was estimated one of the largest procurement contracts in history. Westwick's book fully explores the individual and collective ingenuityand determination required to make these planes and in the process provides a fresh view of the period leading up to the end of the Soviet Union. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the art and science of physics and engineering, Westwick offers an engaging narrative, one thatimmerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that some thought might save the world, and which certainly changed it.
Author: Jim Goodall
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764350757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a pictorial history of Jack Northrop's dream, the B-2A Spirit, a low-observable, strategic, long-range, heavy bomber with the ability to penetrate sophisticated and dense enemy air-defense shields. It is capable of all-altitude attack missions up to 50,000 feet, with a range of more than 6,000 nautical miles (nm) unrefueled, and over 10,000 nm with one refueling, giving it the ability to fly to any point in the world within hours. Stealth technology has rendered radar systems ineffective by greatly reducing their detection ranges. After ten years of service, the B-2A finally achieved full operational capability in December 2003. An assessment published by the USAF showed that two B-2As armed with precision weaponry could do the job of seventy-five conventional aircraft.
Author: Thomas Withington
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-11-20
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1782006893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe B-2A 'Spirit' was an aircraft conceived to fight the Cold War but which has proved invaluable to both the 'New World Order' and more recently the 'War on Terrorism'. The combination of low-observability, precision strike, range and payload flexibility has made the 'Spirit' the weapon of choice when America hits its enemies at the start of a campaign. Spirits have fired the first shots of Operation 'Allied Force' over Kosovo and Serbia, as well as operations 'Enduring Freedom' and 'Iraqi Freedom'. Despite the tremendous cost of the aircraft – each unit is literally worth its weight in gold – the B-2 has had an impact on modern warfare which has vastly exceeded this small force of 21 bombers. Developed in utmost secrecy, the B-2's gestation saw the use of new computer design and manufacturing techniques and ultra-modern synthetic materials making it the most revolutionary aircraft in terms of design and performance. This book examines these incredible aircraft.
Author: Denny Von Finn
Publisher: Epic Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781600148835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the B-2 stealth bomber, covering the aircraft's military and performance abilities, and use in combat missions.
Author: Ted Coleman
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781557780799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development of the Stealth bomber for the original design for flying wing by Northrop and looks at the career of Jack Northrop, its founder