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- 题名/责任者:
- Stealth : the secret contest to invent invisible aircraft / Peter Westwick.
- 出版发行项:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- ISBN:
- 9780190677442
- ISBN:
- 0190677449
- 载体形态项:
- xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Westwick, Peter J. author.
- 论题主题:
- Stealth aircraft-United States-History.
- 论题主题:
- Stealth aircraft-Design and construction.
- 论题主题:
- B-2 bomber-History.
- 论题主题:
- F-117 (Jet attack plane)-History.
- 论题主题:
- Aeronautics, Military-Research-United States-History-20th century.
- 论题主题:
- Aeronautics, Military-Research-United States-History-21st century.
- 中图法分类号:
- V271.4
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index.
- 内容附注:
- Roots of the Revolution -- Tomorrowland -- Breeding Invisible Rabbits -- Lockheed: Tin Shed in a Hurricane -- Northrop: Seeing the Waves -- Showdown at RATSCAT -- Have Blue and the F-117A -- Secrets and Strategies -- The Whale -- Facets versus Curves: The Contest for the B-2 -- Building the B-2 -- From the Shadows to the Spotlight -- Conclusion: The Secret of Stealth.
- 摘要附注:
- "To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, the ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which the impossible was achieved. Stealth is a tale of two aerospace companies, Lockheed and Northrop, and their fierce competition - with each other and with themselves - to obtain what was estimated one of the largest procurement contracts in history. Westwick's book fully explores the individual and collective ingenuity and determination required to make these planes and in the process provides a fresh view of the period leading up to the end of the Soviet Union. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the art and science of physics and engineering, Westwick offers an engaging narrative, one that immerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that some thought might save the world, and which certainly changed it."--
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