I have a small 48-page booklet by Peter Alway & Chris Timm entitled, "Fourteen US Army Missiles of the Cold War". It's really very good. I have used it in the past for the Corporal and Nike Hercules. The missiles are Corporal, Dart, Hawk, Honest John, Jupiter, Lacrosse, Lance, Little John, Nike Ajax, Nike Hercules, Pershing, Redstone, Sergeant, and the Spartan. I see on the cover that it says NAR Technical Service.
I own Peter Alway's Rockets of the World ​2nd ed.
Is there a comparable source for the military side of the field?
I bet that's where the website that I mentioned came from. Didn't know there was a book. I could have sworn I've seen him say online he wasn't into modern missiles. V2's, bazookas and fire sticks are not that modern.
I guess you learn something new everyday!
So do I. The original RotW avoided missiles, aside from those used for research. That was because my principale interest is space exploration, but it also had to do with who I was married to at the time. But I've always been quite aware that older missiles have played a major role in the space program. My views about what is interesting to draw have changed over the years, and I started some pre-1970 missile books 10+ years ago for NARTS. I finished a Soviet missile booklet and the Army missile book mentioned above. I have some Pre-1970 missiles from the US Navy and Air Force drawn but unpublished. Pre-1970 because the missiles that interested me were those in the old Monogram "36 Space Missiles" kit from 1969. For me, after that is to "modern" to grab me. I spent the bulk of 2015 chasing down the very beginnings of rocketry, drawing up things like Chinese fire-arrows and Congreve rockets. At that point I started looking at the time between gunpowder rockets and the cold war. I've discovered a few threads in WW II rocketry that I want to explore. Ideally I'd get something drawn representing the British cordite rockets, Caltech's rockets for the US Navy (like the HVAR/Holy Moses), Clarence Hickman's Section H rockets for the Army (that's where the bazooka fits in), as well as the JPL (Private A and post-war Corporal) as well as Russian solid rockets (Katyusha) and of course, the famous German program. And I hope to fold it into one monstrous edition of "Rockets of the World." Work is kind of stalled right now (a nice third-person way to say I'm feeling stuck lately), but I hope to make some real progress in the near future. Like maybe finish up that bazooka.
Peter Alway
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