by Peter Grining
by Sergei Moroz and Sergei Popsuevich, Eastview Press, 2001, 92pp, $39.95 The illustrations of the Kh-15 and the Kh-65, as well as a lot of the data on the missiles in Peter’s article, are from an extraordinary book, whose title says it all. This slim, softcover publication covers every cruise missile program in the Soviet Union (and later Russia) from the end of the war to the book’s publication in 2001. This includes the early copies of German WW II weapons, the adaptations of unmanned aircraft, and of course the many weapons deployed in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. The text and tables are printed in both Russian and (sometimes badly translated) English, so actually there is even less material than its thinness suggests. But it’s densely packed with facts and data on these important weapons, and lists many variants. There is a two-page table in the back, summarizing all the missiles in the book, that is priceless. The book is available from Eastview press (www.eastview.com), a Russian-language publisher. They have a large military book line, but this is one of the few titles that has English text. It makes me want to study a foreign language. BT Back to The Naval Sitrep # 24 Table of Contents Back to Naval Sitrep List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by Larry Bond and Clash of Arms. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history and related articles are available at http://www.magweb.com |