B-52 Stratofortress vs SA-2 "Guideline" SAM
Vietnam 1972–73
Peter E Davies author Jim Laurier illustrator Gareth Hector illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:18th Oct '18
Should be back in stock very soon
From Vietnam to Desert Storm, this book tells the story of the United States’ seemingly indestructible heavy bombers, and the Soviet-designed missile system that attempted to bring them down.
Ever since its introduction in the late 1950s, the B-52 Stratofortress has been the United States’ primary heavy bomber and a powerful symbol of its immense military might. Its powerful electronic countermeasures equipment (ECM) was thought to make the B-52 immune to ground-to-air missile attack, but in Vietnam, and later conflicts such as Operation Desert Storm in 1991, it came up against the Soviet-designed SA-2 SAM which used heavy salvoes of missiles to bring down the bombers.
The losses of several of its most feared, powerful and supposedly invincible bombers per night to a torrent of Soviet missiles during the closing stages of the Vietnam War was sobering to Americans, but the B-52s’ crushing attacks virtually eliminated North Vietnam’s defences and forced a peace settlement. This fascinating book analyses the roles of the SA-2 operators and the B-52 Electronic Warfare Officers (EWOs) using specially commissioned artwork as well as first-hand accounts, and traces the cat-and-mouse tactics that each side employed.
ISBN: 9781472823625
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 262g
80 pages