The future of the defence firm: the case of the UK aerospace industry

The focus of this paper is the future of the defence firm within the context of the UK aerospace industry and its supply chain. The analysis considers aerospace markets and the aerospace industry in the UK before assessing the future of the defence/aerospace firm as a case study. The paper concludes that its future in terms of the strategic and important aerospace industry is uncertain. The corporate governance of the defence firm will have to change to reflect the hollowing‐out of the firm as the industry experiences significantly less vertical integration. The emphasis of the future defence/aerospace firm will be on ‘buy’ and not necessarily ‘make’. There will also be fewer independent defence aerospace firms as horizontal integration will occur across air, land and sea platforms as well as civil and defence aerospace firms. Indeed, conglomerate integration may even occur with cost pressures and market forces ensuring that merger activity goes beyond defence and aerospace into wider manufacturing industries and, in some cases, service industries in global markets.     

Country survey VI: Australia

Australia is a geographically large country, with the world's longest national coastline to defend, but a relatively small economy of some 17.5 million people. Since World War II, Australia has faced the dilemma of how to structure defence policy in the absence of an identifiable threat. Its policy of self‐reliance aims to permit Australia to conduct defensive operations in the event of low/medium level threats without depending immediately on its allies. This is to be achieved through the technological sophistication of defence equipment, a highly professional but small defence force and local industry support.

The burden of defence, measured as the share of defence outlay in GDP declined from about 3% in 1971–72 to about 2.3% in 1993–94. It has been the Government's policy to encourage the development of local defence‐related industry, in particular in areas such as: electronics/optics; communications and information technology; aerospace; shipbuilding and repair, munitions; and land vehicles. However, defence procurement has a small impact on the Australian economy as a whole.     

防空、反潜作战中舰载设备生存能力的定量评估算法

防空、反潜作战是当前海上编队面临的最重要的作战样式之一,研究舰载设备在海战中的生存能力,对于提高水面舰艇可持续作战能力具有重要作用。采用定量评估方法来研究舰载设备的生存能力问题,基于水面舰艇编队典型防空、反潜作战防线模型,给出了详细的数学计算模型。     

三道防线是防空领域的重大军事变革

当前国土防空和舰队防空中,面临的空袭特点是空袭体系从防区外和视线外对防空体系所保卫的地(水)面目标实施饱和攻击。为了对抗这样的空袭战术,防空体系必须从以投弹圈为唯一防线的作战模式中解放出来,向远程打击预警机,中程拦截空袭武器载机和近程防御空袭武器的三道防线转变。这一转变牵动了防空体系和防空导弹的发展方向,因此是防空领域的一次重大军事变革。     

Ideology,national policy,technology and strategic doctrine between the world wars

Going beyond the still prevalent image of the interwar period as the scene of a struggle between progress and reaction in strategic doctrine, this article analyzes the factors that shaped the formulation of strategy and doctrine in each of the great powers. It shows how underlying technological trends and sweeping visions of warfare on land, in the air, and at sea had to be squared with practical questions and intricate problems of application and detail, as well as with differing national aims, priorities, and constraints.     

防空导弹主动雷达导引头地/海杂波功率谱计算

中/远程防空导弹通常采用复合制导体制,并采用高抛弹道技术来增大射程。这样,在中末制导交班阶段或末制导阶段,主动雷达导引头需要在地/海杂波背景下截获和跟踪目标。介绍了一种计算主动导引头地/海杂波功率谱的方法,根据杂波功率谱的估算结果,可以确定导引头的杂波下可见度(SCV)指标或设立导引头跟踪的频率禁区。     

防空C3I系统作战效能评估

为了更好地认识防空C3I在现代防空作战中的作用,了解我军防空C3I的作战效能,立足我军防空C3I装备现状,根据其技术性能及作战使用方法,依托已有研究成果,采取新的研究思想,运用WSEIAC法评估了防空C3I的作战效能.这种评估思想紧贴防空作战的实际,最大限度地衡量了防空C3I在作战中的性能发挥程度,对今后进行深入的研究发展,具有一定的参考价值.     

The modern naval fortress: an additional sea denial option for coastal states

As fixed facilities, naval fortresses seem unlikely to be important in a sea denial strategy which is usually about mobility, but new defence technologies and the changing geostrategic environment may revive the concept of the fortress. Extended ranges of anti-ship means allow onshore firepower to engage enemies over distance, even beyond the economic exclusive zones where most maritime territorial disputes occur. In the face of size limits on missile warheads that constrain their destruction of hardened targets, various active and passive defence technologies against missiles can enhance the survivability of onshore fortresses. Furthermore, onshore locations give fortresses the advantage of being unsinkable and able to accommodate greater energy and firepower capacity in contrast to vessels, as well as other mobile platforms. The onshore nature of fortresses also gives a different political meaning to being attacked, for the clear violation of sovereignty, as opposed to vessels and aircraft in a disputed space. However, the fact those fortresses are not invincible means cooperation with other existing capabilities still necessary. The case of Vietnam demonstrates how fortresses could strengthen the inferior defence capability of a coastal state vis-à-vis. a stronger sea power.     

基于物元模型-AHP的联合电子防空作战效能评估

针对现代防空作战训练中联合电子防空作战效能评估的问题,引入物元模型,并结合层次分析法(AHP)提出了基于物元模型-AHP的联合电子防空作战效能评估方法.以某次复杂电磁环境下联合电子防空演习任务为背景,建立了作战效能评估指标体系和评估模型,给出了评估模型的仿真算例,结果表明,该方法在联合电子防空作战的效能评估中是可行和有...     

城市防空中需掩护目标的重要性层次分析

城市防空中 ,需要掩护的重要目标多 ,分布范围广 ,必须将众多需要保卫的目标按其重要程度进行分类和排序 ,以便科学部署防空力量 ,提高城市防空综合效益。以目标价值作为衡量各种目标重要性的基本尺度 ,给出了目标价值的层次结构模型和数值计算方法     

Home Defence and the Sandys Defence White Paper, 1957

Long understood as the key document in Britain's Cold War history, the Duncan Sandys Defence White Paper of 1957 nevertheless has a largely forgotten context: home defence. This article argues that understanding this context allows important new conclusions to be drawn concerning the drafting, presentation and the reception of the document and the deterrent strategy it expounded. It argues that the Paper failed to establish a new doctrine for civil defence which reconciled the policy with the wider deterrent strategy. In doing this, the Paper presented a muddled policy to the public: one which failed to justify the reductions in civil defence provision but which stressed the destructive power of thermonuclear weapons. This had the effect of encouraging the critics of the government's nuclear strategy to flag up the absence of adequate civil defence measures and highlight the ‘admission’ that there was no defence against the hydrogen bomb.     

末端防御武器的发展

随着空对地精确武器射程的增大和制导精度的提高,末端防御日益重要,分析了末端防御的重要性和特点,综述了末端的主要目标和用于末端防御的武器系统,概述了末端防御武器的发展趋势.     

Naval policy and national strategy in France, 1933–1937

This article argues that French naval policy‐makers were slow to adjust to the changed strategic landscape of the 1930s. During the 1920s France did not face a serious land or air threat. Defence policy‐makers were therefore able to devote a large portion of the defence budget to rebuilding French maritime power. But when the Depression and the rise of Nazi Germany overturned the strategic situation in Europe, policy‐makers adjusted by giving priority to land and air rearmament and by placing ever greater emphasis on securing an alliance with Great Britain. The French naval establishment resisted this trend unsuccessfully. The frustration of naval planning increased the resentment and mistrust of both the Third Republic and Great Britain that characterised naval attitudes before and particularly during the Second World War.     

轨道优化实时计算的梯度投影下降算法--防空导弹轨道优化的实时计算方法之二

在防空导弹的发射过程中,需要在给定的响应时间内确定最优轨道,导弹沿此轨道在预定的时间飞达预测遭遇点.为了轨道优化的实时计算,构造了一类梯度投影下降算法,并且给出实际应用的具体步骤.对防空导弹运动的一个数学模型的数字仿真结果表明应用这些算法可以达到很高的控制精度.     

单、多平台综合武器系统从纵向到横向集成

在现代海战中,通常要求多传感器多武器进行联合作战,因此,需在纵向集成的基础上进行横向集成,以应对日益增长的精确制导武器的打击。在对国外综合武器系统分析研究的基础上,提出利用信息融合技术、开放结构技术、软件中间件技术、武器共架技术和综合火控系统技术,实现对一体化综合防空系统的综合集成。这是以信息化和网络化为支撑的军事信息系统发展的必然趋势。     

战术防空激光武器发展概况

空中攻击与防空作战在相互斗争中发展,随着空中威胁目标种类变化、性能提高,作为防空武器的一个重要的新型分支,防空激光武器在快速发展,将在近程防空与反导中起重要作用。综述了空中威胁变化对激光武器的需求,激光武器的分类、组成与特点,以及国外战术防空激光反导武器系统发展概况。     

基于模糊AHP评判的舰艇编队防空队形优化研究

针对队形变化给编队防空能力带来的五个方面的影响,建立了编队防空队形综合评判的指标体系,并应用模糊层次分析法建立了编队防空队形优选模型。以驱逐舰艇为例,求出了在一定条件下的最佳防空队形——菱形队形。该模型简单易行,容易在计算机上实现,初步解决了编队防空队形优选问题。     

区域防空网络化作战体系结构研究

区域防空网络化作战是未来防空作战的发展趋势。基于对区域防空网络化作战的需求分析,围绕网络化防空作战中网络连接对象和连接方式两个核心问题,建立了区域防空传感器网络、指挥控制网络、武器系统网络的体系结构。此项研究对于区域防空网络化作战体系的优化分析和规划具有一定的指导意义。     

现代防空体系对防空导弹的需求分析

由于现代空袭体系通常是在预警机指挥下 ,实施防区外攻击 ,所以防空体系必须具有远程打击预警机、中程拦截空袭武器载机和末端防御空袭武器的能力。因此 ,现代防空体系需要三种类型的防空导弹 ,这就是远程防空导弹、中程防空导弹和末端防御用近程防空导弹。     

电子战环境中防空武器抗击能力分析

以电子战环境为作战背景,具体分析了敌军实施电子战的作战样式,并用模糊数学的方法对其进行了量化评估,在此基础上对一般的防空武器抗击能力模型进行了完善,建立了评价防空武器在电子战环境中抗击能力的模型。