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Impact Time Control Cooperative Guidance Law Design Based on Modified Proportional Navigation

open access: yesAerospace, 2021
The paper proposes a two-dimensional impact time control cooperative guidance law under constant velocity and a three-dimensional impact time control cooperative guidance law under time-varying velocity, which can both improve the penetration ability and
Zhanyuan Jiang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Further studies of the efficacy of military, commercial and novel skin decontaminants against the chemical warfare agents sulphur mustard, soman and VX [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background/Aims: Following an incident involving toxic chemicals, deployment of countermeasures before the arrival of specialised services at the scene may provide a “therapeutic” window in which to mitigate skin absorption.
Chilcott, Robert   +2 more
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Blast mines: physics, injury mechanisms and vehicle protection. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Since World War II, more vehicles have been lost to land mines than all other threats combined. Anti-vehicular (AV) mines are capable of disabling a heavy vehicle, or completely destroying a lighter vehicle.
Bull, AM   +4 more
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American youth slang in Russian media

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2022
The formation of the global media space contributes to the active penetration of a different, non-Russian, culture in the domestic media, with one or another broadcast lifestyle having a great impact on the behaviour of young people, shaping, among other
Ekaterina A. Baranova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Penetrating missile injuries during asymmetric warfare in the 2003 Gulf conflict

open access: yesBritish Journal of Surgery, 2005
Abstract Background War wounds produce a significant burden on medical facilities in wartime. Workload from the recent conflict was documented in order to guide future medical needs. Methods All data on war injuries were collected ...
D E, Hinsley   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Miniaturization optimized weapon killing power during the social stress of late pre-contact North America (AD 600-1600).

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Before Europeans arrived to Eastern North America, prehistoric, indigenous peoples experienced a number of changes that culminated in the development of sedentary, maize agricultural lifeways of varying complexity. Inherent to these lifeways were several
Anna Mika   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Terrorism as Ritual Process and Cultural Trauma: a Performative Analysis of ISIS\u2019s Attacks in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Sociological reflection on Islamist terrorism focussed itself almost exclusively on the religious aspect of radicalisation of Islam, spending little efforts to widen the analytic perspective to the effects of ISIS actions on the (re)definition of the ...
Romania, Vincenzo, Tozzo, Serena
core   +1 more source

Air defense planning for an area with the use of very short range air defense sets [PDF]

open access: yesBiuletyn Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej, 2017
This paper presents a heuristic method of planning the deployment of very short-range anti-air missile and artillery sets (VSHORAD) around an area (‘protected area’) in order to protect it.
Tadeusz Pietkiewicz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Refining the PoinTER “human firewall” pentesting framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
PurposePenetration tests have become a valuable tool in the cyber security defence strategy, in terms of detecting vulnerabilities. Although penetration testing has traditionally focused on technical aspects, the field has started to realise the ...
Archibald, Jacqueline M., Renaud, Karen
core   +3 more sources

Operation Moshtarak and the manufacture of credible, “heroic” warfare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Richard Lance Keeble argues that Fleet Street’s coverage of the Afghan conflict has served largely to promote the interests of the military/industrial/media complex – and marginalise the views of the public who have consistently appealed in polls for the
Amoore M   +12 more
core   +1 more source

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