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The Inevitability of Militarization of Outer Space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
At the end of the second decade of the 21st century, we witness a progressive increase of strategic importance of artificial satellites and other orbital systems, which is a consequence of the ever-accelerating development of space technologies that ...
Bernat, Paweł
core   +1 more source

Kinetic Compensation of Barrel Launch Under High‐Speed Solid‐Phase Particulate Impacts

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An accurate launch‐dynamics computational method is critical for barrel weapon service life assessment and multiphase physics field refinement. Given the lack of studies on the solid‐phase buildup behavior at the projectile base, this paper provides an improved method for calculating the launching dynamics under high pressure and high speed ...
Zhiyi He   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Target Area Georeference Algorithm for Evaluating the Impact of High-Speed Weapon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Technology
Evaluation of air-to-ground shooting exercises using Weapon Scoring System (WSS) is very important for the military to achieve Network Centric Warfare (NCW).
Ardian Infantono   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco Réévaluer la préhistoire du Maroc, du Middle Stone Age au Later Stone Age

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informe de vigilancia tecnológica en equipos de manipulación y transporte de misiles

open access: yesCiencia y Poder Aéreo, 2019
This article details a systematic and organized search in the cloud through different databases worldwide, with the purpose of identifying existing technologies concerning transport processes and installation of weapons in military and defense aircrafts,
Abdon Estivenson Uribe Taborda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Rendezvous in Space: Tech Diplomacy and the Commercial Space Era—A Study of Rendezvous and Docking Technologies and Space Exploration Co‐Operation Since the Cold War

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On‐orbit rendezvous and docking constitute one of the most technically challenging activities in the history of space activities. As space endeavours mature to crewed missions, space rendezous and docking technologies (RDT) emerge as an area of technological innovation critical to advances in future crewed space exploration.
Nikita Chiu, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

The Caucasian War (1817–1864) as a Range for the Combat Use Rocket Artillery

open access: yesTECHNOLOGOS
The article is devoted to the experience of using combat missiles in the Caucasian War (1817–1864). Today, rocket artillery is one of the most advanced and rapidly developing branches of artillery, but this type of weapon has come a long way to take its ...
Popova Viktoria
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
wiley   +1 more source

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