Weapon Races Complete series

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DefenceDog: Weapons Races - Aircraft Carrier
Documentary describes the evolution in the aircraft carrier design & its implication in the pre & post WWII. The radicalization of carriers had brought misery upon the once great Japanese Imperial naval force & it had helped the US to control whole of the Atlantic during the Great War.

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DefenceDog: Weapon Races-Strategic Ballistic Missile
The documentary is somewhat biased about keeping Trident up on the line as being the absolute superior over the Russian counterparts. Though it can be said that it’s a superior missile but cannot be regarded as the the fiorst one in the Ballistic Missile class. Following is a more factual & just analysis regarding ballistic or more importantly ICBM comparison between the US & the now Russia.

DefenceDog: Race For The Super (~Hydrogen) Bomb
“Even if you strike first; you will perish together with the defeated side. That is the paradox.” Soviet Air Commander
Great deal of scientists & intellectuals coming from both sides the Soviets & the Americans has taken up the task for designing the Atomic bomb & had shaped the mere written physics equation into a complex mechanized weapon that can end the life form as it occurs today. The blindness in the pursuit of power didn't stop them there but they yet have to build the weapon of virtually limitless power.

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DefenceDog: Weapons Races: The Race For Radar And Stealth
As soon as the idea of strategic bombing was conceived, men began to look at ways of detecting them – or at evading this detection. Today’s stealth technology as exemplified in the Lockheed Martin F-117A Nighthawk seems to have won a race which began in the 1930s with the possibility of developing a death ray! The radar weapons race hotted up when the British showed how vital it was in the Battle of Britain. This programme looks at developments ever since, with ever-more extraordinary ways of spotting all sorts of military and civil machines or of evading detection.

DefenceDog: Weapons Races - Jet Fighter
There will never be another manned jet fighter as powerful as the Lockheed F-22 Raptor. Its extraordinary capability is the result of a weapons race to evolve the perfect combat aircraft which began well before Frank Whittle invented the jet engine. This programme looks at the requirements such as speed, endurance, maneuverability, and fire power which pushed designers to explore the technological limits; the pilots who flew them; and examines how combat honed their mounts into ever-more deadly killing machines.
Apart from the undisputable 4 elements in building a superb air vehicle namely:

1.Speed
2.Endurance
3.Maneuverability
4.Fire Power

there occurs two further aspects in the coming vehicles that weren’t present in the planes of the WW2 namely

1.Situational Awareness
2.Invisibility ~Stealth

 

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Final remaining episodes streaming @blip.tv

DefenceDog: Weapon Races: Race to Build Atomic Bomb
The documentary as usual portrays the WESTERN BRAINS without giving due credit to the Soviet nuclear scientists especially the Andrei Sakharov, whose introduction of ‘layer cake’ design made the thermonuclear bomb much smaller to be carried by Soviet bombers all towards Central Europe & US

DefenceDog: Weapon Races: Race to Build Atomic Bomb
Look at the way in which both the technology and the tactics of submarine warfare were adapted and developed during the Cold War, and how boats like the USS Virginia and the Russian Akula are today's most powerful and deadly naval units.

DefenceDog: Weapons Races : Strategic Bomber
The Russians can’t make a bomber similar to the US arsenal..& they changed the conventional warfare understanding with the introduction of MIRVed ICBMs…the most ECONOMICAL method to project power!!