The United States Military has to be prepared for conflicts of every kind, from full-scale international war to battling terrorist enemies on the home front. This fact-filled directory describes and illustrates hundreds of weapons used by the U.S. armed forces, from small arms to battle tanks, artillery pieces, fighters and bombers, aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers, submarines, and strategic missiles. Each weapon is accompanied by action photography, detailed specifications, and expert commentary describing its development, service, and combat histories.
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Ray Bonds has been a defense journalist, editor, and publisher during a career spanning over thirty-five years, covering periods and activities as wide-ranging as the U.S. Civil War, anti-ballistic missile systems, stealth warfare, and modern military intelligence gathering. He has written and edited scores of well-respected titles on the world's major armed forces, their battles, weapons, and organization, with a specialism in the armed services of the United States. His works have included well-thumbed books on the shelves of official military education centers throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and have included the important trilogy The U.S. War Machine, The Soviet War Machine, and The Chinese War Machine and, most recently, America's Special Forces.
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The United States is the world's only military superpower and the bedrock upon which this power is based is its strategic arsenal, which consists of three elements, known as the "strategic triad." Read the first page
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This compact book for a fair price is nice lookup for anyone who what's to know a little more about all the weapons used by the US Army. The book contains many pictures and lots of interesting facts for each weapon system. Take for example the description of the daisy cutter (actually: BLU-82), the largest conventional bomb. It was all over in the news when the Afghanistan war was under way. If you read this nice booklet you will find that is not very new and actually an old bomb, already used in the Vietnam War. At that time it was used to create chopper-landing sites. The bomb leveled all the trees something that was other wise a dangerous and laborous job for the troops on the ground. I could find in the book all kinds of nice facts about all those other "CNN" weapon systems, the Predator drone, Hellfire missiles, Stinger rocket, M16 machine guns, and many more I never hearth off.
This book is certainly good value for money. But it is not perfect, because it contains no index or detailed contents, how weird!
Format:Paperback
This compact book for a fair price is nice lookup for anyone who what's to know a little more about all the weapons used by the US Army. The book contains many pictures and lots of interesting facts for each weapon system. Take for example the description of the daisy cutter (actually: BLU-82), the largest conventional bomb. It was all over in the news when the Afghanistan war was under way. If you read this nice booklet you will find that is not very new and actually an old bomb, already used in the Vietnam War. At that time it was used to create chopper-landing sites. The bomb leveled all the trees something that was other wise a dangerous and laborous job for the troops on the ground. I could find in the book all kinds of nice facts about all those other "CNN" weapon systems, the Predator drone, Hellfire missiles, Stinger rocket, M16 machine guns, and many more I never hearth off.
This book is certainly a value for money. But it is not perfect, because it contains no index or detailed contents, how weird!
This book is certainly a value for money. But it is not perfect, because it contains no index or detailed contents, how weird!
By K. Jump
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Edited by David Miller, "The Illustrated Directory of Modern American Weapons" is a compact and fairly comprehensive guide to the wide range of sophisticated armaments available to the U.S. Armed Forces at the outset of the ongoing "War on Terror." As to be expected from MBI Publishing Company's "Illustrated Directory" military series, the book is well-stocked with informative, easy-to-read entries for every major weapons system along with over three hundred photographs, most of them of good quality. Specifactions cover such high-profile vehicles as the F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber, the F-18 Hornet, Ohio-class nuclear sub, M1 main battle tank, and the Paladin self-propelled howitzer to the weapons they carry--like the Maverick air-to-surface missile and torpedoes--to the lighter but lethal small arms our ground troops rely on in melee, like the M16, M24 sniper rifle, and the M9 9mm pistol. This is almost certainly the most complete guide to American weapons currently available, and the price is unbeatable. Recommended to all military buffs or anyone who wants to know more about the tools our men and women in uniform rely on in the thick of battle.
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A must-have for all weapons buffs
I have read numerous books on modern weaponry and modern warfare, but this one still managed to provide plenty of information to fill my knowledge gaps. Read more
Published on Mar 24 2004 by Critical Eyes
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Well illustrated
This handy volume is a pocket catalog of the latest American hardware. It's quite up-to-date, though I'm in no position to assess its accuracy or comprehensiveness. Read more
Published on Mar 20 2003 by Bibliophile
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