坦克直瞄/间瞄射击一体化火控技术

直瞄射击方式是目前坦克采用的主要射击方式。直瞄射击方式受战场通视度及瞄准装置视距的影响,最大射击距离一般在5 km左右。间瞄射击方式不需要直接瞄准目标,不受战场通视度的影响,最大射击距离主要取决于火炮及弹药的性能,一般在10 km以上。未来坦克应具备直瞄射击与间瞄射击一体化能力。通过直瞄/间瞄射击火控技术的对比与分析,提出坦克直瞄/间瞄射击一体化火控方案。一体化火控具有新的技术特色,具有更强的综合作战能力,是未来坦克火控技术发展的一种趋势。     

火炮随动系统射击试验射弹数的自动控制

针对火炮随动系统射击试验中射击时机和射弹数难于人工控制的特点 ,讨论了利用火炮随动测试系统进行自动控制的可行性 ,分析了射弹数自动控制的误差。     

高速行进坦克身管速度对射击精度影响

坦克在高速行进时,由于路面谱等外部激励的影响,车体姿态和运动状态都会发生变化。由于车体的振动和随动系统的控制误差等,致使坦克火炮在射击时身管前端存在一定的速度扰动。原有解命中问题的条件中未考虑这一速度扰动的影响,使得坦克在高速行进条件下的目标提前点预测产生误差。通过建立外弹道模型,较准确地仿真分析了这一误差的大小和对射击精度的影响。     

一种应用于目视化瞄准的头动注视点定位算法

应用目视化瞄准技术可以简化火炮直瞄射击过程中的操作难度和瞄准效率。对于目视化瞄准时应用传统桌面式眼动仪器人体头部需要保持静止的问题,研究了一种适用于火炮目视化瞄准的头动注视点定位算法,该算法通过对头部建立四元数坐标系,计算眼球视场和屏幕坐标系,最后通过实验验证证明了通过该算法可以在人体头部自由移动的情况下获得良好的跟踪效果,证明了使用本算法可以实现头部不受限制下的眼动追踪,大大提高了视线追踪技术的适用范围,从而应用于火炮目视化直瞄射击。     

炮兵行拦阻射击间接毁伤效能分析

本文以红军现装备的间瞄火炮与蓝军的营特遣队作战为背景,从定量的角度分析了间瞄火炮行拦阻射击时的间接毁伤效能,建立了评价指标,并进行了模拟分析,在一定程度上论证了间瞄火炮在反坦克作战中的地位与作用。     

地形对间瞄火炮射击效能影响模型研究

地形既能影响实际作战中炮阵地的选定、火炮配置及区分射击任务,又不同程度地影响选定的炮阵地对责任地域的射击效能。文中在考虑地形因素影响的基础上,建立了评定间瞄火炮射击效能的数学模型,阐述了其计算机模型的基本功能和实现方法,对间瞄火炮射击效能的评定具有一定的指导作用。     

直瞄反坦克导弹火力转移射击问题研究

火力转移射击是直瞄反坦克导弹的一种常用射击方式,应用于人在回路制导过程中的瞄准线的连续变化需求;结合对火力转移射击应用时机和直瞄反坦克导弹导引规律的分析,依据反坦克导弹装备的具体战术技术要求,建立了直瞄反坦克导弹火力转移射击模型,并针对火力转移时机选择和转移目标位置确定进行了仿真分析,结果表明模型具有较好的适用性,可为该射击课目的训练提供参考.     

基于图像识别的模拟射击精度判定方法

针对当前瞄靶训练效率低、无评判标准,而多数模拟射击训练系统忽视瞄准过程仅注重瞄准结果的现实问题,基于图像识别的模拟射击系统在击发瞬间采集瞄准图像,通过图像处理,得出觇孔圆中心、准星顶点中心和靶纸中心,再利用灰度矩细分定位法检测各中心之间的距离。根据射击原理,运用相似三角形的比例关系,计算得出模拟弹着点的方向和高低偏移量,从而得出模拟射击的射击精度,并通过实弹射击对其进行仿真及验证。结果证明,此方法可以有效地对模拟射击精度进行计算,且能获得每次击发后正确的瞄准修正方法,可替代当前的瞄靶训练。     

间瞄武器模拟终端火力裁决概率问题研究

在信息主导,火力主战的背景下,间瞄火力的效能发挥对战争的胜负起着至关重要的作用。而实兵对抗训练中,间瞄火力打击效能的评估一直以来缺乏有效的理论依据,影响间瞄火力裁决的科学决策。文章结合间瞄武器模拟终端的使用,根据间瞄火炮打击的特点规律,用面火力射击数学模型推导出间瞄火炮射击的毁伤概率公式,该公式可以为间瞄武器模拟终端的火力毁伤概率的确定提供理论依据。     

集中式舰炮武器系统不稳定分析与解决

研究了火炮随动控制机理,分析了架位量测方法导致系统不稳定的原因,提出了一种改进传统火炮架位量测的方法,针对此方法,提供了一种系统瞄准角误差补偿方法,以保证系统瞄准精度.通过仿真分析及工程验证,提出的方法不但较好地解决了系统的稳定性,而且保证了系统瞄准精度,具有重大的工程应用价值.     

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).     

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.     

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.     

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.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.