Maintaining technical excellence requires a national plan [PDF]
To meet the challenge of technical excellence, AIA established a rocket propulsion committee to develop the National Rocket Propulsion Strategic Plan. Developing such a plan required a broad spectrum of experience and disciplines. The Strategic Plan team
Davidson, T. F.
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Perspectives on Development of Measures to Estimate Career Blast Exposure History in Service Members and Veterans. [PDF]
Front Neurol, 2022 Turner SM +4 more
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On the history of the development of solid-propellant rockets in the Soviet Union [PDF]
Pre-World War II Soviet solid-propellant rocket technology is reviewed. Research and development regarding solid composite preparations of pyroxyline TNT powder is described, as well as early work on rocket loading calculations, problems of flight ...
Pobedonostsev, Y. A.
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Is force ever justified in preventing a State from acquiring nuclear weapons? [PDF]
In order to provide a grounded argument, the present paper asks the following questions. Why do States acquire nuclear weapons? Why do finally States tend to prevent this acquisition? What does the use of force imply?
Dobra, Alexandra
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ViZDoom Competitions: Playing Doom from Pixels
, 2018 This paper presents the first two editions of Visual Doom AI Competition, held in 2016 and 2017. The challenge was to create bots that compete in a multi-player deathmatch in a first-person shooter (FPS) game, Doom.
Jaśkowski, Wojciech +2 more
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An Infrared Small Target Detection Method Based on Attention Mechanism. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2023 Wang X, Lu R, Bi H, Li Y.
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From Wallops Island to Project Mercury, 1945 - 1958: A memoir [PDF]
Research is described which was conducted at the Wallops Island Missile Range (operated by the old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).
Gilruth, R. R.
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Capable companies or changing markets? Explaining the export performance of firms in the defence industry [PDF]
The paper carries out an empirical analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence sector. We focus on the case of Norway, and make use of two complementary methodologies: the first is based on quantitative firm-level ...
Castellacci, Fulvio, Fevolden, Arne
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Deadly injuries through recoilless anti-tank weapons while military shooting practice-two case studies from Germany and Switzerland. [PDF]
Int J Legal Med, 2020 Jellinghaus K +5 more
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Advanced power sources for space missions [PDF]
Approaches to satisfying the power requirements of space-based Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) missions are studied. The power requirements for non-SDI military space missions and for civil space missions of the National Aeronautics and Space ...
Burkes, Tommy R. +9 more
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