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Title, Author and
Publisher: |
AT867 Black Jets– The
Development and Operation of America’s Most Secret Warplanes By
David Donald. AIRtime Publishing |
Media: |
Hard Cover; more than 300 pages plus covers |
Price: |
USD$59.96 available online from Squadron.com |
Review Type: |
First Read |
Advantages: |
Fascinating and broad coverage
of air, land and maritime advanced weapons and projects |
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Recommendation: |
Highly Recommended |
Reviewed by
Mick Evans

Truth
about the Wunderwaffe is available online from Squadron.com
This is quite an extensive book
containing over 300 pages, which contain many photographs and drawings.
The first few pages contain some in depth detail on the vengeance
weapons such as the V1, V2 and V3 and some interesting detail on the
Rheinbote. The V3 is covered with some good details and photographs of
the actual weapon. It consisted of a barrel 130 metres in length, with
staged charges that would send the projectile approximately 160 Km. This
section also contains some original photographs of the A-4b winged and
manned versions of the V1.
On the Luftwaffe side of
projects there is plenty of detail provided of the Me 262, 163, and
P1101, the He 162, Ho-229, Fw Ta-183, and the helicopter development.
Plenty of sketches and line drawings of lots of ‘pie in the sky’
projects but strangely this resemble many aircrafts produced by the USA
and USSR trough the 1950s and 60s.
The Germans also spent a lot of
research time on Electromagnetic weapons and many copies of the original
documents are included in this section. These make for some very
interesting reading in particular the electromagnetic canon.
The late war tanks are covered
through the research and development phases, these include such tanks as
the Tiger I and II, Panther, Tiger Ferdinand and the huge Maus. A
photograph and detail is included of the Raumer S which looks like
something out of Aliens with very large wheels. Something that I
learned through this section was the German development into Gas turbine
engines to propel their tanks.
Other weapons covered are the
sound cannon for generating shock waves, stealth coverings for submarine
snorkels and the type XX1 submarine.
Quite a large section is
dedicated to nuclear weapons and their development but the most
interesting section was of the underground mittlewerk and the original
plans and photographs.
A comprehensive list of weapons
covered is below;
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The V-1
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The V-2
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The V-3
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The Rheinbote
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The Me-262
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The Me-163
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The He-162
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The Ho-229
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Messerschmitt P-11O1
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Focke- Wulf Ta-183
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Electromagnetic weapons and alternative solutions
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The new tools of Blitzkrieg
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Conventional weapons: completely new concepts
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Energy emitters
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Invisible" aircraft and vessels
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Plastics
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Underwater warfare
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Concrete ships
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Recoilless weapons
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Unusual ideas
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New generation small arms
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Infrared
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Aircraft carriers
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Unusual energy sources
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The Feuerlilie
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The Wasserfall (C-2)
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The 1'aifun
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The Henschel Hs-117
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The Enzian
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The Rheintochter
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The Natter
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Air-to-air rockets
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Air-to-surface and surface-surface rockets 187
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Guided bombs
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Homing warheads
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Ramjet propelled fighters
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Biological weapons
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Chemical weapons
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Nuclear weapons
I would highly recommend this book to any person who is interested in
the late war research and development of the German Weapons, it gives
some insight into where some of our current weapon technology comes
from.
Highly Recommended.
Thanks to
Squadron for the review sample
Review Copyright © 2005 by
Mick Evans
This Page Created on 25 May, 2005
Last updated 24 May, 2005
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