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Название: Missileers Against the Stealth: SA-3 NEVA against F-117A and first combat downing of the STEALTH aircraft in history Автор: Michael Mihajlovic, Djordje Anicic Издательство: MSM Publishing ISBN: 1775395308 Год: 2019 Страниц: 343 Язык: английский Формат: epub, pdf (conv) Размер: 16.4 MB
The F-117A, which was hit over the village of Budjanovci in northern Serbia, remains the first and only downing of an aircraft with stealth technology in combat.
The extraordinary story of the band of maverick missileers and the first combat downing of the STEALTH aircraft in history.
All they have is less than 30 seconds to acquire the target, engage it and bring it down. Everything longer than that short time frame means possibility of their own destruction.
What was their "tool of trade"? The obsolete missile system... a slingshot to fight most modern aircraft of the mightiest military alliance in the world... And they used that slingshot to bring down those aircraft. They were targeted many times, attacked with the missiles and packs of SAM hunter-killers but they withstood and survived to fight another day... and to win their own battles.
This is the story about them... The story of the band of maverick missileers and the first combat downing of the STEALTH aircraft in history as seen through the eyes of someone who was there... but this is also the story of their opponents as well... and the story about the technologies - radars, stealth, missile guidance, SA-3 on their collision courses which culminated on March 27, 1999 at the sky over Serbia in the night when the air warfare changed for good...
The intention of this book is to describe and enlighten in detail one event that shook, shaped and steered the aviation twenty years ago. That event happened when something that was marvel in aviation been brought down with something that was, at the time of use, almost obsolete. This book took the approach firstly through the eyes of missile crew than through the eyes of pilot in the last war of 20th century where one small, independent country, in the middle of Europe, was brutally attacked by mighty alliance for the sake of political reasons that are very controversial. But this event was not just the end of experiment, rather the beginning. Definitely, in the future stealth and missile will meet many more times in the sky over some other countries.
Both authors participated in that war in the air defence and intelligence roles. Lt. Col. Anicic, as a missile battalion deputy commander and executive officer, was personally involved in downing F-117A. Because of the necessary requirements of security, both stealth and air defence materials are not widely known and there are a lot of speculations about these events, both in the printed material and also on the web. Some of them are pure imagination and some of them are close to the truth. The real truth is now known to a very narrow circle of experts but even there some the finest details are not known.
The intention of the authors was not to write a pure technical book simply because there are plenty of technical publications and manuals about the radars, stealth, missiles, air defence suppression, development programs etc. The intention was also not to just address the historical events, but rather to combine all of that in a story which can tell both professional in their respectful field and also general public how the clash of two technologies culminated in the sky over Serbia and what are the consequences for the technology development and impacts on future of the air warfare.
One of the challenges with this type of approach is to objectively expose error without casting the slightest shadow on those who took an oath and fought for their countries. In majority of books about air warfare, there is usually an accent on one side, depends who the author is and for which audience the book is intended. Of course, majority books are related to the pilots - fighter pilots, bombers or "wild weasel" crews. This book took another approach.
Preface Foreword ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK About the Authors Chapter One RADAR Radar Fundamentals Radar Range Equation Radar Displays Principle of RCS Measurement Radar absorbing materials (RAM) Integrated Air Defence Systems (IADS) Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) Electronic Warfare (EW) Chapter Two Stealth The Stealth Challenge The Stealth Approach Stealth Principles The scientific theory behind the STEALTH Disadvantages of STEALTH Chapter Three Missile guidance Chapter Four Complex S-125 "Neva" (SA-3 Goa) SNR-125 “Low Blow” Fire Control and Engagement Radar Other Equipment 5V24 and 5V27 surface-to-air guided missiles ZRK S-125M "Neva-M" SAM system S-125M1 (S-125M1A) "Neva-M1" The "Pechora" Pechora-2A upgraded surface-to-air missile system Pechora-2M and ML upgraded surface-to-air missile system Chapter Five Anti – radiation missile (ARM) against radar HARM New Century Chapter Six SA-3/S-125 Combat Engagements War of Attrition and Yom Kippur War Small Wars Angolan Border Wars Operation Desert Storm Chapter Seven The First Stealth Program Hopeless Diamond and Have Blue F-117 development and testing Maintenance issues Just Cause Desert Storm Chapter Eight Prelude to War Order of battle Yugoslavian Air defense USAF and NATO order of battle Attack 3rd battalion March 26 March 27 23 Seconds How missile battalion works Combat crew - the shift Fighting sequences … immediately after Vega 31 The mystery of Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) Combat Search and Rescue F-16CG Hammer 34 Something VERY BIG was in the air... "Intelligence games and throwing dust in eyes…" Chapter Nine Aftermath Fixed Air Defences Crippled but Mobile Air Defences Survived F-117A Retirement and beyond Future of SAM vs Stealth Stealth Aircraft Counter-Stealth Radar Systems Counter-Stealth Concepts Air Defence Systems S-400 Triumf (Triumph) / SA-21 S-300 / SA-10 S-300PMU2 ADMS / SA-20 S-300V/SA-12 9K37 BUK / SA-17 NATO codification system Glossary Further reading and Bibliography
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