基于离差最大化的对地攻击型无人机作战效能评估

针对传统作战效能评估方法在确定权重系数时的主观随意性较大等问题,提出采用离差最大化方法来评估无人机作战效能。首先建立了攻击型无人机空地作战效能指标的层次结构,然后建立了基于离差最大化的攻击型无人机空地作战效能评估的数学模型,并给出了各分项能力的计算模型,最后以6种无人机空地作战效能评估为例,计算并验证了模型的有效性和合理性。     

面向任务的有人机/无人机协同对地攻击概率模型

有人机/无人机协同对地攻击是未来空对地打击的主要作战样式,如何评估其协同作战的效能是军地双方共同面对的重要课题。首先根据完成对地攻击任务的4个环节建立了对地攻击的总概率模型;然后基于桥联模型建立了各个环节的概率模型;最后给出了一架有人机协同两架无人机对地攻击的算例,并对模型反算、协同与非协同对比以及多波次攻击等问题进行了讨论和分析,验证了模型良好可用性和广泛适用性。     

有人机/无人机协同效果评估模型设计

针对目前有人机/无人机协同效果评估缺乏科学方法的现状,在确定了有人机/无人机指控体系结构的基础上,给出了一种新的基于复杂网络的有人机/无人机协同作战网络模型描述方法,进而生成了一种有人机/无人机协同作战协同效果评估模型,并运用该模型对有人机/无人机协同作战网络拓扑模型进行了协同效果评估.     

基于ADC分析法优化的无人机效能评估方法

针对将ADC法应用于察打无人机对地攻击任务的效能评估问题,首先,对经典ADC方法进行模型创新,重新构建能力矩阵;然后,将改进ADC方法用于3款典型察打无人机(MQ-9、翼龙-2、TB-2)对地攻击效能评估,根据作战过程分析和评价指标梳理,设计效能评估指标体系和能力表达公式;最后,采用层次分析法对不同能力指标赋予权重系数,综合得出效能评估结果。效能评估结果表明,MQ-9、翼龙-2、TB-2这3型无人机在对地攻击任务中的作战效能分别为0.6293、0.5962、0.4822,可知MQ-9综合作战能力及作战效能较高,而其余两型无人机可在远距作战能力及协同侦察能力等指标中进行改进提升。研究结果可用于评估和比较不同察打无人机的作战效能,分析不同指标对作战效能的影响程度,提炼出关键能力指标和改进方向,对无人机装备的立项论证和作战使用提供理论参考。     

对地攻击型无人机作战效能评估

由于对地攻击型无人机与有人机在性能参数和作战方式等方面存在诸多不同,为了评估其作战效能,首先建立了对地攻击型无人机作战效能评估的指标体系,然后在此基础上建立了对地攻击型无人机的综合指标模型,同时对效能模型中各分项能力的评估模型进行了完善。最后以6种无人机综合作战效能评估为例计算并检验了模型的可用性。     

面向典型任务的有人/无人机协同效能评估

有人/无人机协同作战是C4ISR体系下的一种重要形式。本文以有人/无人机协同执行典型任务为研究背景,针对构建可靠、全面的有人/无人机协同效能理论评估方法的问题展开深入研究。首先分析了未来有人/无人机的协同模式和运用规则;然后采用协同系统综合指数模型,在单机能力模型的基础上,提出了一种有人/无人机编队协同效能评估方法;最后基于Xsim仿真系统平台在典型任务下,通过针对确定机型的多种编队组合仿真推演,将协同效能仿真结果与理论计算结果进行分析对比,协同效能排序的一致性验证了该理论评估方法具有一定的可靠性与可用性。可以预见,未来战争有人/无人机的协同作战将被广泛应用。     

复杂对抗条件下反辐射无人机作战效能分析

在研究反辐射无人机对地攻击的各重要环节的基础上,建立了反辐射无人机作战效能评估模型,分析了火力对抗对反辐射无人机突防概率的影响,详细阐述了电子对抗的方式及作用原理,对实施电子对抗对反辐射无人机命中毁伤概率的影响进行了定量评估,得出了反辐射无人机的作战效能与火力和电子对抗的关系。算例分析表明,火力和电子对抗是降低反辐射无人机作战效能的重要因素,二者联合作用可使其作战效能迅速下降。     

舰载无人机对海突击作战效能评估研究

舰载无人机是现代海军的重要装备,对舰载无人机作战效能的研究是近年来作战效能评估领域研究的热点。针对舰载无人机对海突击作战效能评估问题,提出了一种将层次分析法(AHP)、模糊综合评判法(FCE)和ADC法相结合的方法。基于舰载无人机对海突击作战使命任务,运用OODA环理论抽象出舰载无人机对海突击作战任务剖面,开展了关于舰载无人机对海突击作战能力的研究,引入对抗因子Z,通过建立效能评估指标体系,构建舰载无人机对海突击作战效能评估模型,同时引入算例对模型进行验证。通过算例计算出舰载无人机作战效能为0.8602,并对其作战过程进行仿真推演,表明了模型的可行性,为舰载无人机的设计论证和作战运用提供技术支撑。     

基于云模型和FAHP熵权的空地弹药效能评估

准确、科学地评估空地弹药的作战效能,对武器装备的设计、研制、试验、采购、作战使用及维护具有重要的意义。充分利用云模型可将定性指标的模糊性和随机性有效结合的特点,构建了空地弹药作战效能的综合云评估模型。针对现有确定指标权重的方法存在主观性较强的不足,提出一种基于模糊层次分析法(FAHP)熵权的权重确定方法,有效利用了主观信息和客观信息。实例分析表明该模型可准确、客观、有效地评估空地弹药的作战效能。     

小型无人机系统作战效能综合评估

本文探讨了通用小型无人机系统作战效能的系统分析方法,根据各种作战任务的任务设备配置分析,采用专家团体决策和模糊数学方法进行了评估,并在其基础上建立了小型无人机系统的作战效能评估指数模型。     

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.