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The Fighter-Bomber in the Normandy Campaign: The Role of 83 Group [PDF]
, 2012 The dichotomy between popular and academic history is, for most historians, and readers, an uncomfortable one. A book that appeals to a mass audience risks the scorn of academia, whereas a scholarly work may never reach beyond the confines of the ...
Evans, Christopher
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Bank-to-turn control technology survey for homing missiles [PDF]
The potential advantages of bank-to-turn control are summarized. Recent and current programs actively investigating bank-to-turn steering are reviewed and critical technology areas concerned with bank-to-turn control are ...
Riedel, F. W.
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Black Hawk Down and the Silences of Ridley’s Scott’s Realism [PDF]
, 2004 A telling moment occurs in the film Black Hawk Down (Bruckheimer & Scott, 2001) when the reliable Shawn Nelson is literally struck deaf by the gunfire of his partner. Nelson can no longer hear his fellow American soldiers, their gunfire, or the screams
Nellis, Robert
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Modern Warfare: Is the Evolution of Weaponry Worth the Cost? [PDF]
, 2012 War is a creation of mankind that has evolved along with human civilization, leaving a bloody trail in its wake. As there are those in our world who strive to improve peacetime society, there are also those who push the limits of weaponry and ...
DeCastro, Nicholas
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Historical review of missile aerodynamic developments [PDF]
The development of missiles from early history up to about 1970 is discussed. Early unpowered missiles beyond the rock include the spear, the bow and arrow, the gun and bullet, and the cannon and projectile.
Spearman, M. Leroy
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Does a Cadillac engine need a biological and phylogenetic explanation? [PDF]
, 2016 In this text we briefly explore whether ridiculing material objects like a ‘Cadillac engine’, a ‘desk’, ‘gold bars in a vault’ as reduction ad absurdum in ‘dialectical duels’ or as a metaphor for teaching evolution is really phylogenetically justified,
Fröbisch, Jörg, Romano, Marco
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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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Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space [PDF]
, 2008 Explores what countermeasures China and Russia are likely to take if the United States continues to pursue the weaponization of space, and what the broader implications for international security will ...
Hui Zhang, Pavel Podvig
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Analysis of carbon nano particle variant as the propellant fuel to increase specific impulses of rockets. [PDF]
F1000Res, 2023 Navalino R, Muda N, Hafizah M, Ruyat Y.
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