A kilowatt-class pulsed carbon dioxide laser radar system was recently installed at the top of Mount Haleakala (see Figure 1) at the Maui Space Surveillance Site (MSSS). The four-year Field Ladar Demonstration (FLD) program was awarded to Textron Systems Corporation (TSC) and contracted through the United States Army Strategic Missile and Defense Command (USASMDC). The work was completed in 199...

This technical report contains the text of Philip Shirvani’s Ph.D. thesis “Fault-Tolerant Computing for Radiation Environments.” Funding: This work was supported in part by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Innovative Science and Technology (BMDO/IST) Directorate and administered through the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research under Grant Nos. N00014-92-J-1782 and N00014-...

In traditional engagement model, there is only one single weapon or platform which resists to another single one, and the connections between members are few, so the complete and global information in engagement space can’t be utilized sufficiently, which directly results in traditional model is confronting with more and more disadvantages especially as the high-tech and information-tech are de...

NATO BATTLEFIELD STRATEGY FOR THE CONVENTIONAL DEFENSE OF CENTRAL EUROPE Patrick Joseph Geary Master of Arts in Political Science University of Richmond 1987 Dr. Arthur B. Gunlicks Thesis Director Although we live in a time in which strategies using nuclear weapons dominate the attention of most defense analysts, there are reasons why more attention should be paid to conventional defense strate...

Because the Polish Air Force currently uses F-16 and MiG-29 aircraft, aim of study was to conduct a comparison susceptibility destruction in combat these two aircraft. The first part work concerned analysis individual critical components, such as: general characteristics airframe structure, aircraft engine, flight control system, fuel weapons, radar system. index defined considering listed comp...

This paper develops a model of short-range ballistic missile defense and uses it to study the performance of Israel’s Iron Dome system. The deterministic base model allows for inaccurate missiles, unsuccessful interceptions, and civil defense. Model enhancements consider the trade-offs in attacking the interception system, the difficulties faced by militants in assembling large salvos, and the ...

Wound ballistics research has contributed much to the understanding of the pathophysiology of missile injury that now exists. From this store of knowledge treatment regimes have evolved which have greatly improved the lot of the soldier wounded in war. However, research must keep pace with changes that are taking place in weapons research and development so that the particular needs of the Army...