基于灰色层次分析法的多种载荷侦察效能评估

针对无人机携带多种侦察载荷执行侦察任务协同效能评估需求,用层次分析法逐层比较分析多种载荷的侦察能力、协同能力、生存能力,建立了侦察效能评估体系。通过专家评分确定指标权重,将认知的灰色性和层次分析理论结合,用灰色系统理论实现评估指标从定性到定量的转化,使层次分析法的判断矩阵扩展为灰色判断矩阵,给出了无人机多种载荷两两协同方案的侦察效能评估的一种方法。该方法在不同任务背景下比现有模型适应性更强。     

基于改进型支持向量机的侦察无人机作战效能评估

侦察无人机作战效能评估是无人机任务规划领域的一个重要课题。针对侦察无人机作战效能评估的问题,提出了基于粒子群算法优化支持向量机的侦察无人机作战效能评估模型。该评估模型在支持向量机的基础上,采用粒子群算法寻找最优惩罚参数和核函数参数,避免了人为设定惩罚参数和核函数参数的盲目性。仿真实验结果表明此模型可以准确有效地对侦察无人机进行作战效能评估。     

一种无人机侦察能力评估模型

在无人机执行侦察任务的过程中,需要对携带传感器的无人机能力进行评估。对此,从生存性能、侦察性能和稳定性能等3个方面建立无人机侦察能力的评估指标体系,并提出一种基于熵权的组合赋权方法,将主客观信息进行融合,确定各项指标的权重,建立无人机侦察能力的评估模型。最后通过实例对该模型进行了验证。     

基于察打任务的无人机作战效能评估

首先根据时敏目标打击的特点,分析了察打任务模式下的察打一体无人机的作战使用。然后对评估体系中察打一体无人机的侦察能力与打击能力相关性进行了分析,同时将任务可执行度作为无人机效能评估的一项动态权衡标准,建立了基于察打任务的无人机效能评估模型,并基于效能指标体系建立了各分项模型。最后通过算例验证了模型的可行性。     

无人机系统的系统效能评估

定量分析和评估无人机系统在给定作战环境下完成高空电视侦察目标任务的程度,依据美国工业界武器系统效能咨询委员会给出的模型和方法,以完成发现和识别目标任务的相符程度作为效能量度,对无人机系统的效能进行了分析和评估建模,实现了无人机系统可用度、可信性、系统能力的计算,给出了无人机系统效能的一种基本算法和公式.     

基于粗糙集和神经网络的无人机侦察效能评估

针对无人机在多条件下的侦察效能评估问题,提出一种基于粗糙集和神经网络的无人机侦察效能评估方法.在该方法中,寻找影响因素构建无人机侦察效能评估指标体系;结合粗糙集理论去除当中的冗余因素;并在处理因素基础上利用遗传优化的BP神经网络构建无人机侦察效能的评估模型,以提高预测精度.仿真结果表明:该模型不仅能够克服传统BP神经网络容错性差,收敛速度慢的缺点,而且可以较好地完成无人机侦察效能评估.     

高空长航时无人机编队协同侦察任务规划

针对高空长航时无人机侦察任务规划特点,分析了高空长航时无人机执行侦察任务过程中的飞行航线约束和通信条件约束,以最小化无人机总飞行航程和最终编队飞行时间为优化目标,建立无人机编队协同侦察任务规划问题模型。同以往的通用侦察任务模型相比,该模型突出考虑了高空长航时无人机执行侦察任务过程的特点。以基本粒子群算法为基础,通过粒子群离散化和结合遗传算法进行改进,使其适用于求解复杂组合优化问题。仿真结果验证了算法求解复杂任务规划问题的有效性。     

基于多侦察资源的电子侦察作战效能评估模型

现代战争战场环境越来越复杂,准确发现目标的难度越来越大,靠单侦察设备独立完成侦察任务已难以满足作战需要。通过建立多侦察资源的电子对抗侦察效能评估模型,对来自同一作战平台的不同侦察设备和来自不同平台的侦察设备的数据进行融合,最大限度地发挥各侦察设备的作战效能,为决策者提供作战使用依据。     

多层次区域炮兵地面侦察配系效能的评估

为了评估由于侦察区域大、目标机动性强等特点而建立的炮兵地面侦察配系的效能,运用排队论方法,建立了侦察配系效能评估模型.该模型综合考虑了各种因素对侦察配系效能的影响,把侦察区域按照距离的远近划分为不同的范围来进行侦察配系的效能评估.当目标流的速率发生变化时,依然可以灵活运用该模型对侦察配系的效能做出准确的评估.以雷达侦察配系为例,论证了评估模型在侦察效能评估中的可行性,为侦察配系效能评估提供了可靠的分析方法.     

侦察无人机作战效能评估准则研究*

在对有人驾驶飞机作战效能评估方法的分析研究基础上,提出了完整的侦察无人机作战效能评估指标体系。建立了作战效能的评估准则与数学模型,并对影响侦察效能的参数进行了分析。运用该方法对“全球鹰”和“捕食者”两种无人机的侦察效能指数进行了定量评估,结果验证了该评估准则的可用性。     

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.