Publisher's Synopsis
This series explains how science and human ingenuity have been applied to create the technologies in a constantly changing world. It examines the reasons why changes and developments are necessary, and shows how problems are solved to bring about these changes. Each book in the series deals with the subject thematically, showing how different technologies combine to create an evolving "state of the art".;"Military Technology" examines the ways in which a range of technologies are applied to the development of weapons, military intelligence and communications, and defence systems.;Warfare has its origins in earliest human times, when people fought each other with their bare hands, stones and clubs. Over thousands of years, the methods used in warfare have become increasingly complex and capable of causing greater destruction. In the past, the use of horses, the longbow and gunpowder revolutionized the way in which battles were fought. The introduction of machine guns and anti-tank missiles were more recent landmarks. It is during the last fifty years, however, that military technology has developed more rapidly than ever before. Modern weapons systems are dramatically more powerful and more accurate than their predecessors, and methods of collecting and analyzing information about opposing forces have grown increasingly sophisticated. What is more, weapons are now being built to take warfare into an entirely new battlefield - space. "Military Technology" looks at various aspects of this fast-changing subject, including how and why the various technologies have evolved, what they are designed to do, what can go wrong with them, and what the future might hold.
