Description
Product ID: | 9781472823625 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | IN |
Series: | Duel |
Title: | B-52 Stratofortress vs SA-2 "Guideline" SAM |
Subtitle: | Vietnam 1972–73 |
Authors: | Author: Peter E. Davies, Jim Laurier, Gareth Hector |
Page Count: | 80 |
Subjects: | Military history, Military history, Warfare and defence, Air forces and warfare, Military vehicles, Warfare & defence, Air forces & warfare, Military aircraft |
Description: | Select Guide Rating From Vietnam to Desert Storm, this book tells the story of the United States’ seemingly indestructible heavy bombers, and the Soviet-designed missile system that attempted to bring them down. Ever since its introduction in the late 1950s, the B-52 Stratofortress has been the United States'' primary heavy bomber and a powerful symbol of its immense military might. Its powerful electronic countermeasures equipment (ECM) was thought to make the B-52 immune to ground-to-air missile attack, but in Vietnam, and later conflicts such as Operation Desert Storm in 1991, it came up against the Soviet-designed SA-2 SAM which used heavy salvos of missiles to bring down the bombers. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-10-18 |