M I S S I L E S When Fieseler’s engineers perfected the V-1 ‘doodlebug’ in 1944, little could they have imagined the long term impact of their creativity. The V-1 became the forerunner of a family of weapons which has decisively infl uenced many aspects of modern air warfare since then, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The media defi nition of a cruise missile is any weapo...

Thus far, Russia backed by China and, to some extent by several European countries and Canada strongly opposes NMD deployment in contravention of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, which it considers the cornerstone of strategic stability. The basic Moscow arguments run as follows: NMD development will undermine “comprehensive “ strategic stability, sap the entire network of international...

Currently, the decisive factor in development of theory military art sea is fact transition to creation and use precision-guided long-range munition by an enemy - anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM), so that destroy ships from remote lines without entering zone fighter aircraft action reach antiaircraft missile system. A promising direction organization building effective combat such complex syste...

A battle management system for comprehensive ballistic missile defense must perform with near perfection and extraordinarily reliability. It will be complex to an unprecedented degree, untestable in a realistic environment, and provide minimal time for human intervention. The feasibility of designing and developing such a system (requiring upwards of ten million lines of code) is examined in li...

In this study, the missile staging process by implementing a side-injected jet is simulated numerically. The problem is considered to be axisymmetric and the thin shear layer approximation of Navier-Stokes equations along with an algebraic turbulence model is used in a quasi-static form for the calculations. The free stream corresponds to a very high altitude flight condition with a Mach number...

Brad Roberts is a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia, and a member of the editorial board of The Nonproliferation Review. He also chairs the research advisory council of the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute. The views expressed here are his own and should not be attributed to any of the institutions with which he is affiliate...

An optimal algorithm to do probe selection in causal chains is presented. Probes may have different costs of measurement. The algorithm runs in polynomial time. This research was supported in part by the Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Technology Center under contract #DASG60-86-C-0015, the Office of Naval Research, under Agreement #N00014-85-K-0008 and the Defense Advanced Research Projects...