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F-102 Delta Dagger Units (Paperback)
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F-102 Delta Dagger Units (Paperback)
Series: Combat Aircraft
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List price R513
Loot Price R465
Discovery Miles 4 650
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World War II saw the development of the heavy bomber as a decisive
weapon which, in sufficient numbers, could overcome defensive
fighters and guns and lay waste to strategic targets. The addition
of nuclear weapons to the bomber's armament made it even more
formidable, and by the late 1940s, US planners saw the growth of a
Soviet nuclear-armed bomber fleet as a terrifying threat to North
American security. Conventional subsonic fighters with guns and
free-flight air-to-air rockets would be incapable of reaching these
incoming bombers in time to prevent even one from delivering a
devastating nuclear attack. As a result, supersonic speed,
long-range guided missiles and precise radar-based control of an
interception became prerequisites for a new breed of fighters,
beginning with the F-102. A massive research and development effort
produced the F-102A '1954 Fighter', the J57 afterburning turbojet,
its Hughes MX-1554 fire control system and, in due course, the
Semi-Active Ground Environment (SAGE) radar and communications
network that covered North America to guide its airborne defences.
In service, F-102As also provided air defence in Europe with USAFE,
in the Far East and in Southeast Asia, where they protected US
airbases in South Vietnam and Thailand from air attack by North
Vietnamese fighters and bombers and escorted B-52s and
fighter-bombers on their attack sorties. This illustrated study
from leading expert Peter E. Davis details the design, development,
and deployment of the futuristic F-102, including its complex
research program and role in Vietnam.
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