Typhoon to Typhoon by Chris Gibson

Typhoon to Typhoon by Chris Gibson

From 1942 the RAF created an effective close support force that operated closely with Allied armies as they closed in on the enemy heartlands in Europe and the Far East. Fighter-bombers, such as Hawker's Typhoon and Hurricane, became key to these operations.

Post war, the successful policy of using former interceptors for ground attach continued with the Hawker Hunter filling that role. This changed in the 1960s when the prospect of a major conventional war in Europe prompted the Air Staff and British aircraft companies to examine dedicated air support types such as the Harrier and Jaguar. Alongside the aircraft, weapons were developed to tackle the main targets: the Warsaw Pact tank armies. As Warsaw Pact air forces improved, the air threat was addressed by deep strike types such as the ill-fated TSR.2, followed by Buccaneer and Tornado, initially with nuclear weapons, latterly with weapons such as JP.233 and Storm Shadow for use against airfields. These new weapons could only be used if the targeting information was available, which required a new battlefield surveillance system that entered service as ASTOR.

Typhoon to Typhoon reveals how the lessons of World War Two were absorbed and how support for the Army in the field moved from employing retired interceptors in the 1940s to the swing-role aircraft in service in the 2020s. Using recently declassified information, Typhoon to Typhoon examines the design studies and new systems that included the work on AST.396 to replace the Harrier and Jaguar and the tortuous route to the Eurofighter Typhoon. Key weapons such as ALARM, JP.233 and Storm Shadow, plus the technologies that allowed the day/night attack capability that made these new aircraft and weapons effective, are also analyzed.

Drawing on research in company and government archives, Typhoon to Typhoon describes how the RAF developed the aircraft and weapons for its close support, interdiction, counter-air and reconnaissance forces from the late war years to today's precision strikes in the Middle East.

Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and specially commissioned artwork, Typhoon to Typhoon is a unique reference to the aircraft, weapons and technologies developed for air support of the British armed forces since 1945.

Gibson, C. G.: - Chris Gibson received an honours degree in Mathematics from St Andrews University in 1963, and later the degrees of Drs Math and Dr Math from the University of Amsterdam, returning to England in 1967 to begin his 35 year mathematics career at the University of Liverpool. His interests turned towards the geometric areas, and he was a founder member of the Liverpool Singularities Group until his retirement in 2002 as Reader in Pure Mathematics, with over 60 published papers in that area. In 1974 he co-authored the significant 'Topological Stability of Smooth Mappings' (published by Springer Verlag) presenting the first detailed proof of Thom's Topological Stability Theorem. In addition to purely theoretical work in singularity theory, he jointly applied singular methods to specific questions about caustics arising in the physical sciences. His later interests lay largely in the applications to theoretical kinematics, and to problems arising in theoretical robotics. This interest gave rise to a substantial collaboration with Professor K. H. Hunt in the Universities of Monash and Melbourne, and produced a formal classification of screw systems. At the teaching level his major contribution was to pioneer the re-introduction of undergraduate geometry teaching. The practical experience of many years of undergraduate teaching was distilled into three undergraduate texts published by Cambridge University Press, now widely adopted internationally for undergraduate (and graduate) teaching.

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ISBN 13	9781902109596
ISBN 10	1902109597
Title	Typhoon to Typhoon
Author	Chris Gibson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hikoki Publications
Year published	2019-10-31
Number of pages	176
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