From 5% to 22% of all U.S. Department of Defense combat casualties between 2001 and 2010 suffered some form of ocular trauma. Ocular injuries have an inordinately dramatic impact on return to duty, retention, and reintegration; only 25% of warfighters with severe ocular trauma return to duty. After a traumatic ocular event, the likelihood of saving an eye and preserving vision depends on severa...

Asingle factor may not fully explain the rationale for India’s quest for a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system. Security, prestige, and an aspiration for power projection are predominant factors in New Delhi’s acquisition of nuclear weapons, as well as in its pursuit of a BMD system. Particularly after the 2005 India–U.S. nuclear deal, which allowed the United States to provide nuclearrelate...

For the uncertain factors in fire allocation process of air and missile defense problem, uncertainty theory is used to deal with an multi-objective dynamic weapon target assignment model proposed. In order above model, a evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition proposed, which adds displacement mechanism firefly uniformly randomly adaptive weights mechanism. Then, simulation results show t...

The ability to discriminate a reentry vehicle (RV) from booster parts and other debris is critical to theater ballistic missile defense (TBMD). As it travels along its trajectory, a threat missile separates into a reentry vehicle (RV) and clutter. The latter consists of several tanks, separation debris and fragments of hot fuel. Interception of the RV requires discrimination of the RV from the ...