This book provides multifaceted components and full practical perspectives of systems engineering and risk management in security and defense operations with a focus on infrastructure and manpower control systems, missile design, space technology, s...Loe edasi...
This book explores moral implications of weapons design and development. It covers topics such as defense, projectile weapons, nuclear weapons, the real costs of war, weapon design in peacetime, and wear theory--...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jan-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674725263)
When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Kat...Loe edasi...
Keith A. Rigby, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Roy Langton, Allan Seabridge
Sari: Aerospace Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Apr-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9780470971185)
This comprehensive treatise is for design and support engineers, air crew, and others working on armed military aircraft. The approach is a systems engineering view of the weapon and the platform, for both manned and unmanned aircraft. The first chap...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Belknap Press, ISBN-13: 9780674073012)
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Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than di...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2013, Other digital carrier, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118519165)
From the earliest days of aviation where the pilot would drop simple bombs by hand, to the highly agile, stealthy aircraft of today that can deliver smart ordnance with extreme accuracy, engineers have striven to develop the capability to deliver...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on contemporary human factors issues within the design of soldier systems and describes how they are currently being investigated and addressed by the U.S. Army to enhance soldier performance and effectiveness. Designing Soldier Sys...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2008, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262633628)
In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdoms Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical knowledge and on actor-network theory, Mort...Loe edasi...
From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.S. submarines experienced an abnormally high number of torpedo failures. These failures resulted from three defects present in the primary torpedo of the day, the Mark XIV. These defec...Loe edasi...
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Traces the work of a team of fringe scientists who are working on isomer weapon technology--a grenade-sized bomb capable of atomic-level destruction--in an account that discusses the exorbitant amounts of money allocated by the Pentagon for its dev...Loe edasi...
We conducted this assessment by performing a detailed examination of 21 projects, comprising about one-third of the total population that had accumulated some track record by late 1999....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Oct-2001, Hardback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262133975)
A sociotechnical study of production contingencies in the United Kingdoms Trident submarine and missile system. In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdoms Trident submarine and missile system as a soc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-1998, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, ISBN-13: 9781563472558)
Emphasizing warhead design logic from a system design perspective, discusses in detail fracture mechanics, high strain rate, explosives, thermodynamics, heat transfer, chemistry, penetration mechanics, statistics, synamics, and finite element equatio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-1997, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, ISBN-13: 9781563472459)
This text documents the history, observations and lessons learned from the development and acquisition of the first very-low-observable combat aircraft. It is a study of the strike fighter code-named Have Blue and Senior Trend from its genesis i...Loe edasi...
National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Materials Advisory Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Committee on Enabling Technologies for Unified Life-Cycle Engineerin
Unified life-cycle engineering (ULCE) is a design engineering environment. This book addresses ULCE approaches to design, manufacture, and application of structural components, especially for advanced military systems. Conclusions and recommendation...Loe edasi...