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3 books on Counter-Air Defense [PDF]
July 20, 2025 | 20 |
These books are covering radar evasion techniques, anti-aircraft weaponry, electronic warfare strategies, missile interception systems, aerial threat assessment, countermeasures for enemy aircraft and the integration of counter-air defense in modern combat.
1. The 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion: Destroyers of the Luftwaffe and Jim Crow
2025 by Samuel de Korte
Samuel de Corte's book tells the story of a lesser-known African-American Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion during World War II. The book is interesting from a historical perspective, as it tracks the evolution of anti-aircraft artillery technologies during in the 1940s. When the threat of the victorious German army became obvious, the Coast Artillery Corps developed and standardized a new weapon. The M1 90mm gun was approved in 1940 and proved to be superior than the 3-inch gun that had been in use before. It had effective range of 12,000 meters and could use radar. The gun had two wheels like a carriage that had to be folded and the outriggers installed before firing. The gun could not depress below zero degrees in elevation, making it useless as an anti-tank weapon. Its successor, the M2, had a four-wheel carriage and could fire directly from the road. To protect against low-flying aircraft, Automatic Weapons - special battalions were created. These units could operate without regimental support. The book provides a unique insight into such a unit. The author hopes that readers will gain a new appreciation for the many ways African Americans served during the War and will be inspired to learn more about units like the 452nd Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion.
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2. Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering
2016 by Warren J. Boord, John B. Hoffman
This book is for technical specialists who plan to participate in Counter-Air Defense system development projects. And the main idea that the author wants to convey is the need for balance - in modern conditions this means meeting the requirements for missile defense characteristics while minimizing the costs of design, development and operation during the life cycle of the system. This book describes author's engineering approach to the design and development of a balanced air and missile defense system with a fixed set of requirements. It is a synthesis of the knowledge that the authors have accumulated over many years of engineering experience and is focused on new technologies and innovative architectures, in particular, networked weapons and sensors. The book mainly focuses on marine missile defense systems that provide protection for the ship itself from missiles, as well as protection for other nearby ships. However, the systems engineering principles discussed can be easily applied to other scenarios for building air defense systems. The main goal is to understand the physics of such systems and the key parameters that determine their capabilities.
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3. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
2012 by National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives
This book in particular covers modern airborne interceptors (ABIs), also known as air-to-air direct kill systems (AHTK). These systems have already shown some potential in practice in some conflicts. But the main problem with ABIs, as with other proposed kinetic boost intercept systems, is the need to be close enough to the target (within about 50 km) for an interceptor with a given speed and a sufficiently maneuverable KKV to reach and successfully lock onto the accelerating booster before the end of the boost phase. ABI programs have existed in the past, but today only a few simple ABI systems based on existing interceptors remain in development. Examples in the book include the Network-Centric Airborne Missile Defense (NCADE) element, based on a modified AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missile and the Air-to-Home Direct Attack (ALHK) program, which uses a modified air-to-air version of the PAC-3 missile.
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1. The 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion: Destroyers of the Luftwaffe and Jim Crow
2025 by Samuel de Korte
Samuel de Corte's book tells the story of a lesser-known African-American Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion during World War II. The book is interesting from a historical perspective, as it tracks the evolution of anti-aircraft artillery technologies during in the 1940s. When the threat of the victorious German army became obvious, the Coast Artillery Corps developed and standardized a new weapon. The M1 90mm gun was approved in 1940 and proved to be superior than the 3-inch gun that had been in use before. It had effective range of 12,000 meters and could use radar. The gun had two wheels like a carriage that had to be folded and the outriggers installed before firing. The gun could not depress below zero degrees in elevation, making it useless as an anti-tank weapon. Its successor, the M2, had a four-wheel carriage and could fire directly from the road. To protect against low-flying aircraft, Automatic Weapons - special battalions were created. These units could operate without regimental support. The book provides a unique insight into such a unit. The author hopes that readers will gain a new appreciation for the many ways African Americans served during the War and will be inspired to learn more about units like the 452nd Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion.
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2. Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering
2016 by Warren J. Boord, John B. Hoffman
This book is for technical specialists who plan to participate in Counter-Air Defense system development projects. And the main idea that the author wants to convey is the need for balance - in modern conditions this means meeting the requirements for missile defense characteristics while minimizing the costs of design, development and operation during the life cycle of the system. This book describes author's engineering approach to the design and development of a balanced air and missile defense system with a fixed set of requirements. It is a synthesis of the knowledge that the authors have accumulated over many years of engineering experience and is focused on new technologies and innovative architectures, in particular, networked weapons and sensors. The book mainly focuses on marine missile defense systems that provide protection for the ship itself from missiles, as well as protection for other nearby ships. However, the systems engineering principles discussed can be easily applied to other scenarios for building air defense systems. The main goal is to understand the physics of such systems and the key parameters that determine their capabilities.
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3. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
2012 by National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives
This book in particular covers modern airborne interceptors (ABIs), also known as air-to-air direct kill systems (AHTK). These systems have already shown some potential in practice in some conflicts. But the main problem with ABIs, as with other proposed kinetic boost intercept systems, is the need to be close enough to the target (within about 50 km) for an interceptor with a given speed and a sufficiently maneuverable KKV to reach and successfully lock onto the accelerating booster before the end of the boost phase. ABI programs have existed in the past, but today only a few simple ABI systems based on existing interceptors remain in development. Examples in the book include the Network-Centric Airborne Missile Defense (NCADE) element, based on a modified AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missile and the Air-to-Home Direct Attack (ALHK) program, which uses a modified air-to-air version of the PAC-3 missile.
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