舰载指挥控制系统与作战任务匹配分析模型及仿真

对舰载指挥控制系统与作战任务进行匹配分析，是舰载指控系统正确合理使用的前提和依据。本文利用有色Petri网（CPN）建模工具，得到舰载指控系统和作战任务模型，在此基础上，建立了舰载指控系统与作战任务匹配分析模型，最后利用CPN Tools进行仿真计算，得到舰载指控系统与作战任务匹配分析结果。     

舰机协同对海搜索直升机使用

针对舰载雷达不能为超视距导弹提供超视距目标指示问题,分析了超视距导弹使用中的目标指示要求,结合舰载直升机性能及作战方法,运用舰艇机动学中的有关理论,建立舰载直升机引导超视距导弹攻击模型,归纳总结了计算结果,得出若干规律.为舰载直升机在超视距目标指示中的行动方法提供了理论依据和参考.     

海军作战管理

本文介绍了英国各主要军火公司近年来为英国海军和出口而研制的海军舰载指控系统和作战管理系统。这些新系统将装备英国和其它国家海军各种类型水面舰艇和潜艇,反映了海军指控系统一些最新发展情况。     

2000年国外海军指控系统展望

本文介绍了国外海军为满足2000年海军作战要求而研制和发展的新型海军指控系统,包括美国海军的C~4I体系,美国海军单舰自防御系统。舰队防空联合作战系统,美、英、法等国新型舰载指控系统。文章还论述了商用流行技术,主要是计算机技术在海军指控系统中的应用情况与前景。     

舰载指控系统一体化仿真研究

本文提出了舰载指控系统一体化仿真体系结构,其一体化仿真模型用到了诸如面向对象、数据库、可视化等技术,具有较好的人机交互界面,能实现作战模拟、评价作战方案等。     

舰载指控系统的软件故障树分析

在现代舰载指控系统的设计中软件所占比例日益增加,软件故障对系统可靠性的影响也更突出,需要对软件故障进行分析。根据现代舰载指控系统的特点,采用软件故障树分析方法,以舰载指控系统的软件系统故障为根节点,从上至下找出导致软件系统故障的所有可能因素,分析其因果逻辑关系,最后建立了现代舰载指控系统的软件故障树。软件故障树以图形演绎的方法直观地反映了现代舰载指控系统的软件故障特性,有助于采取有效措施提高系统的可靠性。     

天波超视距雷达作战能力评估

为全面准确评估天波超视距雷达作战能力,提出了一种基于模糊层次决策的天波超视距雷达作战能力综合评估模型。首先,简要分析天波超视距雷达作战使用特点,建立了一种较为系统的天波超视距雷达作战能力评估指标体系;然后介绍了层次分析法与模糊综合评判方法应用到雷达作战能力评估的方法及步骤,最后进行了实例应用与分析。结果表明,该评估模型实用有效,为今后天波超视距雷达的研制、改进、优化部署以及作战使用提供了参考。     

基于插件技术的舰载指控系统应用框架

为提高舰载指控系统的灵活性和重用性,实现系统的按需配置与组合,在本编一体化、应用集成等技术基础上,提出了一种插件式舰载指控系统应用框架,详细的描述了该应用框架模型的组成以及框架内部消息通信机制,并对插件对象管理、本编一体化的集成框架等其中一些关键技术进行探讨.同时将这一理论成果成功应用到新型舰载指控系统原型的开发与实践中,实现了全插件式的舰载指控系统应用框架,实验证明该应用框架能显著提高指控系统开发维护的效率,是完全可行的.     

防空反导指控系统敏捷性需求分析

随着防空反导作战环境的不确定性增加,指控系统体系结构的论证发展面临巨大的挑战,通过系统分析防空反导指控系统发展面临的挑战,提出防空反导指控系统的敏捷性概念及模型,分析了具有敏捷性的防空反导作战指控系统特征及其作战模型,提出了防空反导指控系统的敏捷性需求,分析了指控系统敏捷性的关键技术,在此基础上给出了防空反导指控系统敏捷性发展建议,对于防空反导指控系统的论证研制具有一定的理论指导和参考价值。     

舰载作战系统

本文全面综述了舰载各种作战系统的功能、组成及配置要求,给出了不同时期用现代系统工程方法实现的典型舰载作战系统的组成框图。     

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.