The 'Secret' World of Vickers Guided Weapons by John Forbat

The 'Secret' World of Vickers Guided Weapons by John Forbat

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. Projects covered in depth include Red Rapier, Blue Boar, Red Dean and Vigilant anti-tank missile, of which the author has first-hand experience as he started working for Vickers as a graduate apprentice assembling airplanes and soon graduated into Special Projects where he was responsible for many of the trials.

John Forbat started working for Vickers as a graduate apprentice assembling airplanes and soon graduated into Special Projects (later known as Guided Weapons) where he was involved in developing many projects from Blue Boar to TSR2. The book has been written with the cooperation of the Brooklands Museum and its archives, where the author is in the process of creating an exhibition of guided weapons

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ISBN 13	9780752437699
ISBN 10	0752437690
Title	The 'Secret' World of Vickers Guided Weapons
Author	John Forbat
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The History Press Ltd
Year published	2006-04-01
Number of pages	255
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