浅议武器装备全寿命管理

对武器装备实行全寿命管理,有利于优化武器装备经费结构,提高武器装备经费使用效益。文章从武器装备全寿命管理的概念入手,介绍了武器装备全寿命效费比模型,并对武器装备全寿命管理的不同阶段进行了效费分析。     

应用CALS实施装备全寿命管理的思考

CALS电子信息系统对武器装备系统的全寿命周期管理的研制设计、生产制造、使用保障和招标采购各个阶段具有重要影响。在装备全寿命管理中应用CALS电子信息系统,是信息化条件下武器装备建设发展的客观需要,也是武器装备实行全寿命全系统管理的现实要求,更是推动我军精确装备保障快速实现的有效途径。我军装备全寿命管理中实施CALS电子信息系统,应强化CALS战略意识,建立高效的CALS领导与管理机构,培养专业的CALS技术与管理人才。     

建立武器装备全寿命投资机制探讨

建立武器装备全寿命投资机制，是由武器装备建设的特点决定的。武器装备全寿命投资机制主妻包括武器装备全寿命投资的决策层次与结构、武器装备全寿命投资各利益主体之间的关系，以及有效实施投资活动全过程管理。建立武器装备全寿命投资机制，在理论上可以更好地促进武器装备投资体制改革理论及投资理论的深化和发展，在实际中能更好地解决武器装备建设投资领域的超概算、涨费用等问题。     

航空武器系统通用数据管理平台的设计与实现

针对传统航空武器电子系统设计中存在的数据管理混乱和低效问题,提出了一种基于数据库的管理平台对整个设备与接口控制信息进行管理的方案。基于三层开放式结构,建立了以SQL Server为数据库引擎,结合XML进行数据管理的模型,实现了对数据存储、数据操作以及终端管理的功能,形成了拥有丰富接口的开放式武器系统辅助设计平台。该平台具有友好的人机界面和良好的可扩展性,并在作战飞机航空武器仿真系统中得到应用。     

基于PDM技术的舰船RMS建模仿真平台框架研究

针对使用建模仿真来对舰船全寿命周期的可靠性、维修性和保障性(Reliability,Maintainability and Supportability RMS)作设计、论证、分析和验证等工作中呈现的数据复杂多样、模型转换频繁和仿真要求全面等困难,运用产品数据管理(Product Data Management,PDM)的思想予以解决.通过开发和解决部分关键技术,使用高层体系结构(High Level Architecture,HLA)作为服务层,借助PDM系统管理复杂数据,构建了基于PDM 系统的舰船 RMS 建模仿真平台.在实际运用中,该仿真平台较好地满足了舰船全寿命周期的RMS建模仿真工作的需求.     

基于GMM的数据仓库管理与维护

元数据管理系统是构建、管理、维护和使用数据仓库系统的核心部件。元数据管理关键在于构建一个全面的、可扩展的元数据模型,表示各种类型的元数据。本文提出了一个通用的元数据模型GMM,该模型可以有效支持数据仓库的管理和维护,如用户视图管理、个性化服务、增量刷新、数据志跟踪等。     

面向武器装备全寿命周期管理的虚拟原型技术

武器装备全寿命周期管理是降低武器装备研制开发费用、缩短研制周期,提高新武器装备战斗力的主要技术途径。虚拟原型技术已经成为支撑武器装备全寿命周期管理的关键技术,贯穿到武器装备概念设计、研制开发、生产管理、测试评估、维修训练等全寿命过程。本文综合论述了虚拟原型技术的概念,应用与发展前景,并结合总装备部职能转变,提出了应用先进虚拟原型技术,制定科学高效的武器装备采办政策与工作流程的建议。     

美空军装备司令部机构改革述评

美国空军装备司令部在国防预算缩减的背景下进行了机构改革。通过机构精简合并、裁减文职人员等措施提高了部门绩效。借鉴美军这一做法,推进我军装备体制改革,可以建立全寿命周期管理中心和武器装备系统信息中心,加强对武器装备系统的横向管理。     

关于对加强武器装备科研管理的思考

武器装备科研管理是武器装备全系统全寿命管理的前期阶段,对武器装备战斗力生成具有重要作用。文章主要从对加强武器装备科研管理的必要性、基本内涵的理解以及提出了对加强武器装备科研管理的几点思考。     

完善我军武器装备全寿命费用管理的对策建议

武器装备全寿命费用管理是指运用系统理论和系统工程方法,对装备从立项论证到设计、制造、生产、使用、保障,直至报废的寿命周期过程实施科学的管理决策。在这种管理模式下,装备采办决策和管理部门从新装备研制立项时就全面考虑科研、生产和使用保障等各阶段的目标,综合权衡费用、综合性能、进度和后勤管理等要素,从而得到较理想的效费比。武器装备全寿命费用管理,     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.