改进MUSIC算法超音速空速估计

为实现超音速气流基于声矢量传感器的空速测量,在分析马赫锥内等效声源特性的基础上,提出基于时空扩展改进MUSIC算法的空速估计算法,建立了声矢量传感器阵列模型和声波在超音速稳定气流中的传播模型,通过等效声源改进MUSIC算法实现超音速空速估计,并针对算法运算量大的问题提出快速算法。实验结果表明,所提算法能够准确地估计超音速空气流动速度,快速算法在损失较少精度情况下极大提高算法的实时性。     

多径条件下子阵级低角测高算法

针对多径条件下的测高问题,提出了一种子阵级处理新算法.采用均匀子阵划分形成三个子阵;在子阵级解析求出协方差矩阵的正交矢量,进而构造仰角谱,谱峰的位置即目标仰角;还可以估计出复反射系数.仿真分析给出了该方法的性能与SNR、目标仰角以及复反射系数的关系,某米波雷达实测数据检验了该方法的有效性,仰角测量误差达到阵列天线波束宽度的1/84.研究表明:该算法本身不依赖未知的复反射系数,并且信号处理维数低,运算量较低,可以应用在舰载雷达和米波三坐标雷达中.     

基于子协方差阵加权的三星时差定位数据综合

为提高三星时差定位系统的定位精度,需要将系统在不同时间得到的多个定位估计结果进行统计综合。本文提出了一种基于子协方差阵加权的定位数据综合算法。该算法根据单点定位精度分析结果,先利用定位误差协方差的二维子阵的逆矩阵作为权矩阵,通过加权最小二乘估计目标空间三维坐标位置中的其中两维,再利用WGS-84地球模型求解另一维坐标。仿真实验表明,相比已有算法,所提新算法可以明显提高定位精度。     

均匀圆阵主特征矢量分析解相干算法

为解决均匀圆阵的相干信源波达方向估计问题,提出一种适用于均匀圆阵的虚拟均匀线阵主特征矢量分析算法。采用模式空间变换将均匀圆阵转换为虚拟均匀线阵,对其数据协方差矩阵进行处理以构造主特征矢量矩阵;引入加权最小二乘法,通过重复迭代得到子空间各元素之间的线性预测系数,从而求得相干信源的波达方向估计值。理论分析和仿真结果表明,该算法对相干信源具有较好的估计精度,且具备高分辨率和低复杂度的优点。     

互耦和通道不一致对空间谱估计算法影响分析

在均匀线性阵列和双平行线阵模型下,结合常规波束形成算法,一维子空间类算法和二维子空间类算法的原理,构建了阵元间互耦和通道幅相不一致的误差模型,系统性地分析了两种阵列误差对这些经典算法的作用机理,并进行了数值仿真验证。理论分析和仿真结果表明,互耦和通道不一致会对阵列流型产生扰动,并破坏旋转不变关系,使得经典算法估计性能严重下降,降低了估计成功概率。     

基于声矢量阵的宽带波束域高分辨方位估计

宽带信号波束域处理是实现水下目标高分辨方位估计的重要途径,它相对阵元域具有运算量小、分辨信噪比门限低以及角度分辨力高的优点。声矢量阵单个阵元能同时测量声场中的声压量和3个正交的质点振速分量,相对于声压阵,它能获取更多的声场信息。因此通过均匀声矢量阵运用MUSIC算法对宽带信号源波束域DOA估计进行了研究,改善了对弱相干信号源的方位分辨和估计性能,实验所获得的仿真结果表明了该方法具有较高的参考价值。     

空间重采样的宽带多重信号分类算法高分辨方位估计

空间重采样法是宽带恒定束宽波束形成的一种重要方法,采用声矢量阵推导了基于空间重采样的宽带MUSIC算法,并和相干子空间FFT插值法做了仿真比较,结果表明,所提算法的性能优于FFT插值法,表现为更低的分辨信噪比门限和估计均方误差上.     

基于声矢量传感器阵列的近场声源两步定位算法

针对传统算法中多维搜和索运算量大的问题,首先结合ESPRIT和纯方位估计方法,提出了一种基于声矢量传感器阵列的近场源两步定位算法;然后,利用常规的阵列流形矩阵,结合矢量传感器的ESPRIT定位算法,实现了单传感器的方位角和俯仰角的估计;最后,通过最小二乘估计的方法实现了声源的定位。随后的仿真结果证明了该方法的有效性。     

双圆阵模式空间二维解相干

提出一种相干信号二维波达方向(Direction of Arrival,DOA)估计算法——模式空间波达方向矩阵(Mode-Space DOA Matrix,MS-DOAM)法。算法基于双圆阵,利用模式空间转换将圆阵转换为虚拟双平行线阵,计算虚拟线阵阵元间的互相关信息,构造两个等效协方差矩阵,进而构造波达方向矩阵,对该波达方向矩阵特征分解,利用得到的特征值与特征矢量求得入射信号的仰角和方位角。算法无需二维搜索,实现估计参数自动配对。仿真结果表明,算法在低信噪比和短快拍条件下,估计误差低于虚拟空间平移算法。     

基于单快拍数据的嵌套阵列DOA估计算法

针对嵌套阵列DOA估计实时性不好的问题,提出了一种基于单快拍数据的估计算法。该算法将嵌套阵分为阵元间距等于信号半波长和阵元间距大于信号半波长的两个均匀子阵。利用两子阵接收的单快拍数据分别构造Toeplitz矩阵,然后进行特征值分解结合MUSIC算法得到低精度无模糊的DOA估计和高精度有模糊的DOA估计,最后结合解模糊算法得到高精度无模糊DOA估计。在阵列孔径相同的条件下,相比于阵元间距等于信号半波长的均匀线阵,算法需要的阵元个数较少,节约了硬件成本。该算法具有较好的实时性,并且拥有较高的测向精度。仿真结果证明了算法的有效性。     

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).     

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.     

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.     

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.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.     

Country survey XVI the defence sector in the economy of a declining superpower: Soviet Union and Russia, 1965-2001

The Soviet Union was able to develop a large military-industrial complex and become the world's second superpower despite deficiencies in its centrally planned economy because defence was given high priority status and special planning, rationing and administrative mechanisms were used to attain national security objectives. However, in the period 1976-85 the effectiveness of priority protection diminished and defence institutions experienced more of the problems typical of the shortage economic system. The heavy defence burden also created growing difficulties for the civilian economy. The attempts by the Gorbachev government to reform the defence sector and improve defence-economic relationships during perestroika (1985-91) uniformly failed. For most of the transition period, the Russian military-industrial complex has been adversely affected by its low priority status, cuts in defence spending, instability of the hybrid politico-economic system, and negative growth of the economy. The armed forces and defence industry have been reduced in size and their outputs of military services and equipment have fallen to low levels. Nevertheless, the Russian armed forces still have over one million troops, significant stocks of sophisticated conventional weapons, and a large nuclear arsenal. The government of President Putin has raised the priority of the defence sector, increased real defence spending, and adopted ambitious plans to revive Russian military power. It is likely, though, that tight resource constraints will hamper efforts to reform the armed forces and to upgrade weapons. By 2010 Russia will be an important, but not dominant, military power in Eurasia.     

Traffickers,terrorists, and a ‘new security challenge’: Russian counternarcotics strategy and the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade

The collapse of the Soviet Union precipitated the massive expansion of drug use and trade in Russia. The country now has one of the largest populations of injecting drug users in the world and has become the largest single-country market for Afghan heroin. In 2003 the Federal Service for the Control of the Drugs Trade was created to coordinate a comprehensive counternarcotics strategy appropriate to the scale of this threat. The service continues to face a number of challenges in its early stages of development. However, it has made considerable advances in improving responses to large-scale organised crime and in building international cooperation.