基于低速平台的随队支援干扰系统随队干扰能力分析

为了给受训对象提供电磁信号环境,在随队干扰信号从雷达天线主波束进入的限定条件下,设计了使用低速平台搭载干扰系统伴随高速战机实施随队干扰的编队方式,并仿真分析了对不同主瓣宽度雷达的随队干扰过程。结果表明,当平台速度明显低于突击飞机飞行速度时,存在最佳的初始进入距离以实现最大局部随队干扰过程。     

支援干扰掩护下反辐射无人机突防技术

针对高速或低速平台配合高速战机突防时,速度距离协同精度要求高、随队干扰时间短以及干扰掩护效率不高的问题,提出了两型机动能力相当的低速平台无人机配合突防的策略,即采用远距离支援干扰机掩护反辐射无人机突防至一定区域,雷达干扰无人机全程随队掩护反辐射无人机,仿真结果表明,该策略具有干扰掩护效率高、干扰资源节省、航迹配合容易的优点。     

基于改进稀疏A~*编队航迹实时规划方法

根据干扰任务与战场态势对随队支援干扰机干扰航线与资源分配的实时规划是空中突防作战中的关键技术。对航迹实时规划技术的概念进行概述,以突发威胁环境为背景,建立随队支援干扰编队的航迹实时规划模型。针对实时搜索的稀疏A*搜索算法,设置了新的目标函数。基于改进的稀疏A*搜索算法,利用仿真技术对三维航迹进行更新,实现实时规划的目的。     

航空随队支援干扰掩护区仿真建模研究

干扰暴露区及干扰扇面等传统评估指标对静态干扰部署可以进行有效评估分析,对机动干扰掩护难以进行准确描述分析。为有效评估电子对抗航空兵随队支援干扰能力,以及准确进行航空兵突防编队配置及干扰力量需求分析,引入了干扰掩护区的概念,并建立相关模型进行仿真计算,得出3条电子对抗随队支援航空兵突防的运用启示。     

随队支援干扰目标选择辅助决策方法

随队支援干扰是现代空袭作战中重要的电子对抗手段,随队飞行过程中对干扰目标的选择是随队支援干扰飞机作战运用研究的重点和难点问题,详细分析了随队支援干扰飞机的作战阶段划分及主要作战行动,针对雷达网的探测距离和综合发现概率指标,建立了随队支援干扰下的计算模型,并主要尽可能地降低雷达网的综合发现概率,提出了基于动态规划的干扰目标选择辅助决策模型。最后,以某种作战背景为基础,进行了作战过程仿真和辅助决策结果分析,验证了该方法的可行性和有效性,该方法求得的结论也支持随队支援干扰飞机其他方面的作战运用研究。     

编队飞行气动减阻原理的模拟研究

编队飞行是自然界中普遍存在的一种飞行方式,前方飞行器或者鸟类利用拖出的尾涡来提高后方飞行器或者鸟类的非定常升力,并降低诱导阻力,这主要得益于速度矢量方向相反的翼尖涡的有利干扰及耗散,从而达到较高的飞行效率。本文运用流场分析工具,通过对编队飞行过程中翼尖涡的有利干扰进行分析研究,初步探究编队飞行的气动减阻特性。     

面向目标对峙跟踪的四旋翼协同编队控制方法

针对多四旋翼编队飞行过程中对地面目标对峙跟踪、几何队形生成、稳固保持和协同抗干扰问题,设计了一种可应对外部环境干扰和气动参数不确定性的多四旋翼主从式协同目标跟踪方法。首先,建立存在外部干扰以及参数不确定性的四旋翼运动学/动力学模型;其次,基于Lyapunov导航向量场设计领航者的对峙跟踪航迹使得领航者以固定对峙半径实现对目标的盘旋跟踪;然后,构造多四旋翼分布式位置保持控制器,为后续姿态控制器构造提供必要的期望指令;最后,针对四旋翼外部环境干扰和气动参数不确定性设计基于自抗扰控制的多四旋翼姿态跟踪控制器。仿真结果表明所提方法可以在局部智能体通信的前提下实现对地面目标的对峙跟踪,显著改善四旋翼编队系统的抗干扰能力,提升干扰环境下多四旋翼编队几何构型的稳固性。     

船舶大型编队的组合转向方法研究

针对现有转向方法在船舶大型编队转向中存在的问题,从满足大型编队转向要求的角度出发,结合不同类型转向方法的实施特点,提出了一种新的组合转向方法设计思路。给出了基于该思路的大型编队转向方法具体实施步骤,并利用模拟仿真平台进行了典型编队的仿真验证,证明了方法的有效性与适用性。     

舰艇编队质心干扰中的无意毁伤判断

质心干扰是舰艇编队防空作战体系中一种非常关键的作战手段.针对舰艇编队协同防空作战过程中,怎样判断舰艇使用质心干扰抗击来袭的敌方反舰导弹目标时,是否会发生无意毁伤的问题,通过对舰艇质心干扰原理和无意毁伤根源的分析,建立了舰艇编队质心干扰中的无意毁伤判断模型,并进行了实例仿真.仿真结果表明,该模型能够辅助编队指挥员在制定编队协同防空作战方案时进行无意毁伤检测,从而消除方案中可能存在无意毁伤的风险,保证编队防空作战能力最大程度的发挥.     

舰船编队组网作战数据分析平台的设计与实现

舰艇编队网络化作战是基于网络中心战理论形成的未来海战的主要方式。在未来舰船编队防空网络化作战的大应用背景上,提出了一套能够对舰船编队网络作战过程记录数据进行分析和处理的数据分析平台设计方法。该平台能够自动化的读取舰船编队作战记录数据,对网络化作战过程进行提取和解析,对目标指示、目标融合等组网作战功能进行分析,并将分析结果以适当的形式呈现,供设计师及作战部队对网络化作战性能流程和功能的分析和验证,能够快速有效的通过分析记录数据查找和解决问题。     

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.     

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).     

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.     

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.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

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.