Sparks over Vietnam The EB66 and the Early Struggle of Tactical Electronic Warfare Gilles K Van Nederveen 9781288299393 Books
Download As PDF : Sparks over Vietnam The EB66 and the Early Struggle of Tactical Electronic Warfare Gilles K Van Nederveen 9781288299393 Books
Technology has often been a key component in turning the tide of battle, particularly so in modern air wars. From the Battle of Britain to the Bekaa Valley to the most recent air operations against Iraq and Serbia, an invisible but vital duel was waged for control of the electromagnetic spectrum, with victory going to the side best prepared to exploit it while at the same time denying its effective use to the enemy. Both the Gulf War and the Air War Over Serbia illustrated the vital role of airborne electronic warfare, rekindling concerns for effective electronic systems, techniques, doctrine, and platforms. Contrary to many peoples' impressions, stealth technology has not negated the need for electronic jamming. Rather it has increased both the desirability of and potential benefits for judicious disruption of enemy electronic defense networks. This study underscores the important use of electronic intelligence and jamming as an electronic countermeasure. Three decades ago, the USAF faced a North Vietnamese electronic air defense threat about which little was known. Through some extraordinary efforts, the USAF ably countered that threat employing an obsolete aircraft, the EB-66, only refitted and upgraded for mid 1960s missions. Since the aircraft was at the end of its projected lifecycle, and a new jammer was on the drawing board, the air staff would not fund additional EB-66 modifications and maintenance requirements. Parallels are easy to draw with today's jammers, as essentially the same situation exists with the EA-6B. The number of EB-66 aircraft during the Vietnam War was inadequate to meet both operational and training requirements. Thus, crews were trained on the job, often during combat operations, and the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan was often the site of scavenger hunts for repair parts needed to keep the aircraft aloft.
Sparks over Vietnam The EB66 and the Early Struggle of Tactical Electronic Warfare Gilles K Van Nederveen 9781288299393 Books
The Douglas EB-66, and its crews, never quite got the respect they deserved in Vietnam. Flying a relatively large, twin-engined aircraft into North Vietnam to support strikes by the USAF they were the 'cutting edge' for Air Force electronic warfare during the conflict and routinely went deep 'up north' to provide cover for the Thuds and Phantoms that dropped ordnance. In all ways these were gallant men doing critical work in South East Asia; in that regard Author Van Nederveen does a good job of relating the work that the "Destroyer" crews did in theater from 1965 to 1972.The work isn't long- only 99 pages, but excellent in content. The few pictures are muddy and did not re-produce well.
What isn't mentioned is that this work, now copyrighted by the University of Hawaii, is actually a verbatim reproduction of the author's thesis for the Air Force Air University in 2000. (it's ARI Paper 2000-3 actually). In that regard, it used to be available for free off their internet site.
RJM
Product details
|
Tags : Sparks over Vietnam: The EB-66 and the Early Struggle of Tactical Electronic Warfare [Gilles K. Van Nederveen] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Technology has often been a key component in turning the tide of battle, particularly so in modern air wars. From the Battle of Britain to the Bekaa Valley to the most recent air operations against Iraq and Serbia,Gilles K. Van Nederveen,Sparks over Vietnam: The EB-66 and the Early Struggle of Tactical Electronic Warfare,BiblioScholar,1288299397,Education,Education General,Education Teaching,General
People also read other books :
- Mail Order Bride The Singer and the Handsome Stagehand Singing Sisters Book 3 edition by Emily Woods Religion Spirituality eBooks
- Costa Rica for REALists Daniel Andrés Evans 9781511532419 Books
- Leadershipology 101 Keith A Craft 9780615353234 Books
- Pastoral Theology Thomas Murphy 9781115617680 Books
- The Melting Pot Marissa Jones 9781499365887 Books
Sparks over Vietnam The EB66 and the Early Struggle of Tactical Electronic Warfare Gilles K Van Nederveen 9781288299393 Books Reviews
My husband found this book very interesting since he worked on these airplanes in the Air Force.
GREAT BOOK AND STORY. DELIVERED IN EXCELLANT CONDITION.
Since my father flew the EB-66 electronic warfare aircraft from Feb 1968 to Feb 1969 (out of Takhli AFB) I often have searched for information about this aspect of the Vietnam War. It has been a very frustrating search since I could find no books or magazine articles about these missions until I happened upon Gilles Van Nederveen's book "Sparks Over Vietnam". It is an excellant book explaining why the obsolete B-66 was chosen for use as an electronic warfare platform and by text and diagrams outlining the various types of missions flown and the many difficulties they encountered. For instance, I did not know that because of it's TAC history the EB-66 could only refuel from a KC-135 fitted with a drogue refueling fixture. This meant that a KC-135 could be fitted out to refuel an EB-66 or it could be fitted out to refuel F-105's and other AF aircraft requiring the standard fuel probe but not both on the same refueling mission, something my Dad had never mentioned to me. After reading this book I have a much better understanding of EB-66 operations during this period and it really brings home what my father went through during his 155 combat combat missions. There are many good photographs but they suffer from being printed along with the text on common paperstock rather than on slick photographic paper. I especially liked all the diagrams and maps and the appendix listing all EB-66 aircraft lost (including the April 2, 1972 shoot down on which the Bat*21 movie starring Gene Hackman was based) and also listing the present location of EB-66 aircraft now on display in musuems. My only complaint is that the book is rather short (just over 100 pages) and tends to focus on tactics and strategy leaving little room for personal stories from the aircrews. But overall, it is a fascinating book and since it is the only book (that I know of) on this subject I feel very grateful to the the author for this almost forgotten story of the EB-66 and its brave air crews during the Vietnam War.
The second of two books on a usually overlooked aircraft, the B-66/EB-66/RB-66 Destroyer, though this book tells most about the electronic countermeasures aircraft types that flew in Southeast Asia. If it hadn't been for the work of these aircraft and their air and ground crews, we would have lost many more of our combat aircraft to SA-2 SAMs, and AAA. Long overdue, this book, and "GLORY DAYS", finally tells us the stories of these air crews and their aircraft, the EB-66 & RB-66C Destroyers in combat.
The Douglas EB-66, and its crews, never quite got the respect they deserved in Vietnam. Flying a relatively large, twin-engined aircraft into North Vietnam to support strikes by the USAF they were the 'cutting edge' for Air Force electronic warfare during the conflict and routinely went deep 'up north' to provide cover for the Thuds and Phantoms that dropped ordnance. In all ways these were gallant men doing critical work in South East Asia; in that regard Author Van Nederveen does a good job of relating the work that the "Destroyer" crews did in theater from 1965 to 1972.
The work isn't long- only 99 pages, but excellent in content. The few pictures are muddy and did not re-produce well.
What isn't mentioned is that this work, now copyrighted by the University of Hawaii, is actually a verbatim reproduction of the author's thesis for the Air Force Air University in 2000. (it's ARI Paper 2000-3 actually). In that regard, it used to be available for free off their internet site.
RJM
0 Response to "[ZTO]≫ Read Free Sparks over Vietnam The EB66 and the Early Struggle of Tactical Electronic Warfare Gilles K Van Nederveen 9781288299393 Books"
Post a Comment