Article ID: CBB001321274

General Designer of the World's First Missile Defense System (2013)

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Ilchenko, Mykhailo (Author)


Research in the History of Technology
Volume: 18
Pages: 64--69
Publication date: 2013
Language: Russian


This article highlights the career of Grigory Vasilevich Kisunko, his studying and professional growth. Defined is the contribution G.V. Kisunko to defense of Moscow during the Great Patriotic War, improvement of air defense and revealing the hidden potential of radar stations used. Investigated is participation in the following areas: the development of the first national anti-missile defense systems S 25, the development of mobile anti-ballistic system C- 75. Investigated are the activity of G.V. Kisunko and comprehensive approach to development of the world's first missile defense system "A", creation of the A-35 and A-35M systems. It was studied that the basic idea for the ABM was determining of the target coordinates by the method of three distances. The scientific and academic contribution of the scientist to the theory of radio waves propagation and establishing of the new scientific direction in applied radio physics were also investigated. Key words: Gregory Kisunko, missile defense, air defense, the method of the three distances, radio, radar

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Authors & Contributors
Bayuk, Dimitri A.
Conant, Jennet
Conner, William E.
Efron, Noah J.
Gorokhov, Vitaly G.
Heefner, Gretchen
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Air Power History
American Scientist
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
History of Physics Newsletter
Publishers
I. B. Tauris
Johns Hopkins University Press
Norderstedt bei Hamburg Books on Demand
Simon & Schuster
The MIT Press
World Scientific
Concepts
Science and war; science and the military
Radar
Missiles
Physics
Science and culture
Radio
People
Einstein, Albert
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Loomis, Alfred L.
Terletskii, Ia. P.
Alexander, Elizabeth
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Moscow (Russia)
Great Britain
Iran
Soviet Union
Japan
Institutions
Tuxedo Park (N.Y.)
United States Air Force (USAF)
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