Rhetoric versus reality: Canadian defence planning in a time of austerity

As Canada's military mission in Afghanistan winds down and the country faces several years of fiscal austerity, all of Canada's major political parties are agreed that Canadian defence budgets must stay level or be cut. This comes at a time when the defence department is slated to replace the Canadian Forces’ (CF) major equipment fleets. Canada's defence establishment thus faces some critical decisions. One option is to try to maintain its expeditionary capabilities across all three services: army, navy and air force. Absent substantial new infusions of funds, however, this approach is likely to lead to an overall and largely chaotic reduction of capabilities. Another option is to make some difficult choices as to which expeditionary capabilities to maintain as part of a strategic review of Canada's future military needs. Such an option would ensure that Canada has at least some military capacities which can reliably be devoted to the most demanding international operations, while maintaining those capabilities required for domestic duties and North American defence. Pursuing this option would accord with the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization Strategic Concept and the call for “Smart Defense” within the Alliance. This article assesses the arguments for and against the option of specialising Canada's future defence capabilities and explores scenarios as to what a future CF may look like.     

舰空导弹防空体系分析

从舰空导弹武器作战任务的需求出发,分析了舰空导弹体系的组成,给出了评估体系优劣的指标。简要回顾了国外舰空导弹武器的发展,阐述了美、俄、英等国家舰空导弹体系的构成,并展望了舰空导弹发展趋势。     

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。     

防空监视网络传感器任务优先级的模糊评价方法

传感器任务优先级是传感器管理的重要依据。应用模糊推理技术的传感器任务优先级评价方法,基于所有融合航迹和识别数据,通过符号推理确定决策循环过程中执行的每个监视任务的优先级。首先确定了管理系统结构,建立了优先级决策树,给出了模糊推理规则,最后进行了仿真试验。试验结果说明了模糊评价方法在传感器管理应用中的有效性。     

基于排队论的防空导弹群作战效能研究

结合防空导弹群防空战斗的特点,利用可列状态生灭过程的排队论方法,研究了防空导弹群作战效能,建立了数学模型,分析了导弹群防空武器系统对目标平均击毁概率的计算方法,并通过引入拦截适宜性因子对理想条件下的排队模型进行了修正,为类似问题的研究提供了一种参考。     

多传感器数据融合在舰艇防空中的应用

以舰艇防空为背景,对防空作战中目标指示环节和舰空导弹武器系统作战使用环节中多传感器数据融合的应用进行了分析。分析包括舰艇平台信息的收集、目标指示信息的转换、融合的预处理及分布式融合处理等过程。分析之后建立了数学模型,并进行了仿真。仿真结果表明,融合后目标指示的精度和导弹制导数据的精度有明显的改善,有利地保证了防空作战的顺利进行。     

国外机载电子干扰吊舱的现状及发展

机载有源雷达干扰系统是现代飞机一种辅助电子对抗系统,根据其功能可分为支援干扰系统和自卫干扰系统,其中支援干扰系统装在专用电子战飞机上,自卫干扰系统装在作战飞机吊舱上.主要论述国外机载电子干扰吊舱的构成、装载平台、技术现状及发展.     

防空旅(团)战斗保障体系效能评估模型

防空旅(团)战斗保障体系的效能是形成良好防空作战能力的关键因素之一,结合防空旅(团)的实际情况,建立了防空旅(团)战斗保障体系的效能指标体系,应用AHP法(层次分析法)确立了各因素的权重,给定了防空旅(团)战斗保障体系效能的评价指标,采用模糊综合评判,建立了二级的评估模型,实现了对防空旅(团)战斗保障体系效能的量化评判模型,并通过实例分析证明了该方法的可行性。     

Automated integration of real-time and non-real-time defense systems

Various application domains require the integration of distributed real-time or near-real-time systems with non-real-time systems.Smart cities,smart homes,ambient intelligent systems,or network-centric defense systems are among these application domains.Data Distribution Service(DDS)is a communi-cation mechanism based on Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe(DCPS)model.It is used for distributed systems with real-time operational constraints.Java Message Service(JMS)is a messaging standard for enterprise systems using Service Oriented Architecture(SOA)for non-real-time operations.JMS allows Java programs to exchange messages in a loosely coupled fashion.JMS also supports sending and receiving messages using a messaging queue and a publish-subscribe interface.In this article,we pro-pose an architecture enabling the automated integration of distributed real-time and non-real-time systems.We test our proposed architecture using a distributed Command,Control,Communications,Computers,and Intelligence(C4I)system.The system has DDS-based real-time Combat Management System components deployed to naval warships,and SOA-based non-real-time Command and Control components used at headquarters.The proposed solution enables the exchange of data between these two systems efficiently.We compare the proposed solution with a similar study.Our solution is superior in terms of automation support,ease of implementation,scalability,and performance.     

The prospects of combined action: Lessons from Vietnam

Military commanders, policymakers, and analysts have recently embraced the concept of combined action as a powerful tool to improve the effectiveness of Afghan security forces in the fight against the Taliban. In doing so, they explicitly draw inspiration from the Combined Action Program employed by US Marines during the Vietnam War. This program is widely considered to have greatly improved the effectiveness of South Vietnamese government forces and contributed to increased population security in its area of operations and is considered a model worthy of emulation. This study finds that the success of the Vietnam-era Combined Action Program was more qualified than contemporary proponents argue. It argues that successes were tempered, and conditioned, by the choice of junior commanders, the level of operational control enjoyed by the US Marines, and the way the local forces were recruited and deployed. These conditions offer valuable lessons for those seeking to employ combined action not only in present-day Afghanistan, but also in future counterinsurgency campaigns.