The spoils of war: an Anglo-Saxon perspective
The spoils of war: an Anglo-Saxon perspective
- Author(s): C.A. Hempstead
- DOI: 10.1049/cp.2009.1246
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- Author(s): C.A. Hempstead Source: IET History of Technology Network 36th Annual Weekend Meeting, 2009 page ()
- Conference: IET History of Technology Network 36th Annual Weekend Meeting
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- DOI: 10.1049/cp.2009.1246
- ISBN: 978 1 84919 160 9
- Location: Mulhouse, France
- Conference date: 10-13 Sept. 2009
- Format: PDF
In the 1950s and 1960s three air-to-air infrared sensitive guided missiles were designed and built. Two were British, Firestreak (1957) and Red Top (1964) and one was American, Sidewinder (1956). The early missiles had similar properties although Firestreak had superior performance. Red Top was the first, all round attack missile; it was all transistorised and used early indium antimonide cells 14 years before similar Sidewinders. However, the British missiles were dead ends for few were sold, whereas 100,000 Sidewinders were sold, and were copied all the world. American scientists had the advantage that their missiles were used in warfare, and therein were developed. Thus German ideas of the second world war came to fruition in British and American laboratories and missiles during the Cold War. (15 pages)
Inspec keywords: missiles; history
Subjects: General aspects of aircraft, space vehicles and satellites; Other general electrical engineering topics; Military circuits, components, and equipment
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