Sidewinder

Creative Missile Development at China Lake
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-59114-981-1
Verlag: Naval Institute Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers, working on a remote base in the Mojave Desert, developed a weapon no one had asked for but that everyone was looking for. <em>Sidewinder</em> is the story of how that unorthodox team at China Lake, lead by the visionary Bill McLean, overcame Navy bureaucracy and more heavily funded projects to develop the world's best air-to-air missile.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westrum, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Verwaltung, Streitkräfte (Militärwesen)

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Ron Westrum</strong> is a professor of sociology and interdisciplinary technology at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He holds degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago and is also the author of <em>Technologies & Society</em> as well as numerous articles on science, technology and society. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI.