Article ID: CBB001250076

Pave Nail: There at the Beginning of the Precision Weapons Revolution (2011)

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Description A history of the laser-guided precision weapons program used by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War.


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Authors & Contributors
Bridger, Sarah
Baxter, Colin F.
Michael W. Hankins
Jim Laurier
M.C. Elish
Peter E. Davies
Journals
Air Power History
Science, Technology and Human Values
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Journal of Military History
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
Air University Press
Osprey Publishing
Viking
University Press of Kentucky
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Military technology
Cold War
Weapons
Technology and war; technology and the military
Vietnam War
Science and war; science and the military
People
Boyd, John Richard
Maxim, Hiram
Gatling, Richard Jordan
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Vietnam
Soviet Union
Institutions
United States Air Force (USAF)
United States. Department of Defense
Strategic Defense Initiative
United States Space Force (USSF)
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
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