MISSILES OF THE WORLD (0711009953)

What's worse, though, is that currently there is no other similar publication, simply stating the specific and essential data of the various types of missile currently in use.
Indeed, it seems that after the 9/11 this kind of publications were in fact banned from the shelves of libraries, so that the only texts available all date back to the 70s and 80s of the last century.

As with many other specialized texts on the subject, this volume also often omits essential information and specifications on missiles of U.S. or British production as not to violate some kind of military secret (!?), while other countries' models are treated in a more comprehensive or depth way, with the notable exception of several Soviet-made missiles, which at the time were largely still unknown or whose performance were mostly the result of speculation by NATO experts.

Despite these obvious shortcomings, the book remains a valuable help to get to know each model and type of self-propelled guided projectile for use on land, naval and anti-tank and anti-aircraft warfare, including ballistic missiles, strategic and tactical alike, in use in the two blocs.

Among other things, this is much better and far more useful of the equally old but more blasoned Jane's pocket book on the topic, but this - at least for me - it's an old story, since the time when I made the big mistake of buying an issue of the massive Infantry Weapons of the World by the same publisher, remaining seared and disappointed.

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