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Improving rotorcraft survivability to RPG attack using inverse methods [PDF]
, 2009 This paper presents the results of a preliminary investigation of optimal threat evasion strategies for improving the survivability of rotorcraft under attack by rocket propelled grenades (RPGs).
Anderson, D., Thomson, D.G.
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V2 to Bomarc: Reading Gravity’s Rainbow in Context
Orbit, 2014 In this article I argue that while Thomas Pynchon’s 1973 novel, Gravity’s Rainbow, is set primarily between 1944-1946 in Europe, it also simultaneously addresses itself to its own authorial context—that of the “Long Sixties” in America.
Joshua Comyn
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Optimization of Targeting Rocket Launchers with Wheeled Robots
, 2021 The quick launch weapon system is unique. This rocket launcher has a high launch rate, but the rocket launched is one stage lower than the launcher normally launched by ships of this size.
A. Nugraha, A. Ravi, Dadang Priyambodo
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Research on High-tech Ammunition Training System Based on Virtual Reality Technology
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 With the development of computer technology, the virtual reality technology has become more and more widely used in military field. The training of high-tech ammunition has the problems of low efficiency, high cost, poor security and inconsistent working
Meng Zhang +3 more
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Electrical engineering & Electromechanics, 2019 Purpose. Preparation of short scientifically-historical essay about one of founders of domestic rocket production and practical cosmonautics, distinguished Soviet designer of space-rocket technology Sergey Pavlovich Korolev. Methodology. Known scientific
M. I. Baranov
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Voices in Bioethics, 2020 The exigency and scarcity thrust on society by the emerging COVID-19 pandemic have produced novel interactions and tensions within normative ethical theory. Western ethics is occupied by the inherently incongruent frameworks of utilitarianism, deontology,
Samuel Dale
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Exploring hidden narratives: Conscript graffiti at the former military base of Kummersdorf [PDF]
, 2013 This article explores the cultural significance and interpretative potential of graffiti left by Soviet conscripts at Kummersdorf, a former military base in the German federal state of Brandenburg.
Hack, H, Merrill, S
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Space in 150 years: From fantasy through fiction to fact and function [PDF]
, 2015 In the last century and a half, space has moved from the realm of fantasy to everyday reality. In parallel, the way space has been regarded by the person in the street and the ideas of what access to space might be used for have evolved extraordinarily.
Southwood, DJ
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The Continuing Quest for Missile Defense: When Lofty Goals Confront Reality
, 2018 For almost three quarters of a century, the United States has spent billions of dollars and countless person-hours in the pursuit of a national missile defense system that would protect the country from intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) carrying
Pella, Peter J.
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A ballistics module as a part of the fire control system
Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 2013 This article presents a ballistics module as a part of the fire control system of weapons for fire support (mortars, artillery weapons and rocket launchers). The software is "open" with the prominence of autonomy work.
Branka R. Luković +2 more
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