Название: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Rockets & Missiles (A Salamander Book)
Автор: Bill Gunston
Издательство: Crescent Books
Год: 1979
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 266
Размер: 336,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first missiles to be used operationally were a series of missiles developed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Most famous of these are the V-1 flying bomb and V-2, both of which used a simple mechanical autopilot to keep the missile flying along a pre-chosen route.