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Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence: Technology, Security and Culture.

Obrana a Strategie, 2011
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Vendula Vespalcová
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Penetration of a glass-faced transparent elastomeric resin by a lead-antimony-cored bullet [PDF]

, 2008
The penetration of the lead antimony-cored 7.62 mm × 51 mm bullet into a glass- faced polyurethane elastomeric polymer resin has been studied. The resulting craters in the resin contained elongated bullet core material that had a significant amount of ...
Hazell, P.J., Edwards, Michael R., Hazell, Paul J., Edwards, M.R., Erskine, J., Longstaff, H.   +5 more
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REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS, MISSILE DEFENCE AND WEAPONS IN SPACE: THE US STRATEGIC TRIAD

Scientia Militaria, 2011
American plans for Missile Defence (MD) and the weaponisation of space should be analysed in the larger framework of the contemporary Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).1 Soviet military analysts have written about this revolution from as early as the ...
Joelien Pretorius
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Japan-U.S. Defence Alliance: The Chinese Response

JISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics, 2009
After a period of decline, security ties between the U.S. and Japan have been revitalized by both the countries in response to the threats of terrorism and a nuclear North Korea.
Mehmooda
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From Flybys to Sample Return: A Review of Space Probes and Robotic Sampling Technologies for Small Bodies

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a crucial puzzle piece of deep space exploration, exploring small bodies can provide significant scientific insights and valuable mineral resources. Unlike missions to the Moon and Mars, small‐body missions pose distinct technical challenges, including communication delays, weak gravity, and uncertain environments. This paper reviews a full
Xin Zhang, Hao Zhou, Dalin Zhou, Zhaojie Ju   +3 more
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Does Europe Need a New Missile Defence System? ESF Working Papers No. 27, November 2007 [PDF]

, 2007
US plans for a ballistic missile defence system in Europe have given rise to opposition in Russia and tensions in Europe. While some argue that the defence shield is needed to protect Europe against new threats from the proliferation of long-range ...
Slocombe, Walter, Thränert, Oliver, Pikayev, Alexander.   +2 more
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Probabilistic Analysis of Anti-ship Missile Defence Effectiveness

, 2014
Effective missile defence systems are primary requirement for naval ships to counter lethal anti-ship cruise missile attacks in today’s naval warfare scenario. Anti-ship ballistic missiles would further add worry to ship missile defence.
Dutta, Debasis
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Professionalising the Cybersystemic Practitioner: Five Decades of STiP Education at the Open University (1971–2025)

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
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The Dual‐Use Conundrum of the Lisbon Treaty Regarding Space Governance: Solutions Through International Legal Interpretation?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An inherent divide features within the Lisbon Treaty between civilian and military/security competences; something previously more obvious via the ‘pillar system's’ separations. This division follows the Member States (MS) (natural) protection of their military/defence autonomy; their core sovereign powers.
Charlie J. P. Bennett
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Missile defence : trends, concerns and remedies

, 2021
At the 14th Roundtable here in Kuala Lumpur in June 2000, I argued that: 'It is time for another debate about missile defences, but the arguments (both positive and negative) will be very different from those which obtained during the mutual nuclear ...
Ball, Desmond
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