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Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
""Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about advanced weaponry. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
The History Press
Publication Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's own involvement as an engineer at the company through the 1950s and early 1960s and on more recent research of the archives at Brooklands Museum and the PRO, this book explains the successes and failures of leading-edge developments at Vickers, in the early days of guided weapons.
John Forbat explains missile and avionics systems and trials, with diagrams and photographs, and tells the story of the company and its individuals....
8) Raven Strike
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
New York Times–Bestselling Authors: These CIA operatives are on a mission in the Sudan that's classified—and illegal . . . In the blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue. On the trail of a notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned boundaries. And now the ultimate weapon has fallen into the wrong hands. As Danny Freah and his spec-ops team scramble to recover a top-secret aircraft that has crashed...
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Series
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a military drone goes rogue over the skies of Libya, Dreamland's covert strike force must enter the fray in this international action thriller. The fires still burn in Libya years after the fall of Gaddafi, forcing NATO to intervene in a new war that could have devastating consequences for the volatile region. But something has gone terribly wrong with a foolproof new superweapon, resulting in the shocking deaths of innocents. The latest military...
10) Dark fall
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"When a remote Peruvian village is reduced to ash in seconds, the Shepherds face a horrific question: Is this the work of a man-made weapon of unthinkable power, or is God raining down judgment from above, as some believe? As the recently installed leader of the Joshua Bravo team, Jedidiah Johnson shifts into covert operation mode to follow rumors of a new energy-based weapon able to incinerate a target -- even a human target -- with no warning. With...
11) Drone Strike
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Series
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"On the President's orders... one man is tasked with averting nuclear war When the U.S. develops intelligence showing that Iran is in the final stages of assembling a nuclear bomb, the President orders Breanna Stockard and the Whiplash team to destroy it before the renegade nation can destabilize the shaky Middle East. Left with no other choice, Stockard sends young Air Force ace Turk Mako behind enemy lines. His orders: pilot a squadron of high-tech...
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Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Publication Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"A volatile U.S. ally has fallen prey to the terrorist beast. India is the target of radical Islamic jihadists, and the world watches breathlessly as tensions escalate between the uneasy giant and its longtime nemesis Pakistan--with China waiting in the wings, eager to flex its military might. A nuclear showdown seems inevitable, unless the masterminds at Dreamland can get to the mysterious source of the terror and end it, swiftly and permanently....
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Series
Dale Brown's Dreamland volume bk. 10
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In a volatile world, America's worst nightmares canbecome real-anywhere, anytime, and with no warning. But there is one potent defense: a top-secret military facility in the Nevada desert where the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed. Masters of astonishing military technology that enables them to deploy almost instantaneously to any part of the Earth, the Dreamland team must now stop a dangerous revolution in the making...
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Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Although it sounds like science fiction, the technology to create weapons that could hunt and destroy targets on their own already exists. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in emerging weapons technologies, draws on incisive research and firsthand experience to explore how increasingly autonomous weapons are changing warfare. This far-ranging investigation examines the emergence...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The weapon is codenamed "Razor"-the brainchild of the brilliant minds at Dreamland-a mobile chemical laser system with a range of 600 kilometers capable of downing anything that flies. The destruction of an American aircraft over northern Iraq suggests the inexplicable and unthinkable: a vengeful foe now possesses the lethal technology. It is fear that draws a retired warrior back to the battlefield, and sends Dreamland's best pilots to the skies...
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PBS
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, Hitler hatches a diabolical weapon: a bank of "superguns" housed in a massive underground complex in Nazi-occupied northern France. Together, the guns would be able to pump 600 high explosive shells 100 miles to London each hour, spelling doom for the Allies. Engineers, archaeologists, and WWII historians investigate this fearsome weapon and two audacious missions designed to destroy it.
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Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Publication Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
One of the Air Force's top guns, Captain Breanna Stockard is training Brunei pilots to fly the EB-52 Megafortress. But when a violent attempted kidnapping threatens a major arms deal about to take place, Breanna and her husband Major Jeff "Zen" Stockard must uncover a plot that--in this volatile region of the world--could mean Armageddon.
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Publication Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The ships of Virginia Class are the most advanced attack submarines in history. Meet the ship, herself, and glimpse what a technological marvel she is! Viewers will travel to the shipyard to see how these amazing machines are built and unravel the mysteries of the hidden hunters. The submarine is more than a machine, and the crew is the true heart of this amazing vessel.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The beast isalive and prowling the high seas. As extremist Islamic pirates, armed and supported by a powerful Saudi terrorist, prey on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden, America aggressively answers with serious muscle -- a next-generation littoral warship with a full range of automated weapons systems that the enemy has dubbed "Satan's Tail." However, unforeseen technological problems combined with the suicidal tendencies of a fanatical foe mean...



