Shielding the ‘Hot Gates’: Submarine Warfare and Japanese Naval Strategy in the Cold War and Beyond (1976–2006)

The build-up of Japan's military apparatus in the 1990s and 2000s has been often regarded by security analysts as indicative of a departure from the country's Cold War strategic posture. Japan appears to be engaged in a process of militarisation that is eroding the foundations of its ‘exclusively defence-oriented’ policy. In the case of the archipelago's naval strategy, such assessments overlook the longstanding significance of a core feature of its defence policy, namely the surveillance of maritime crossroads delivering the wealth of the country. The paper reassesses the evolution of the Japanese strategy since the Cold War by examining the development of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force's submarine force, one of the key components of the defensive shield for these crossroads. The paper argues that with the changes in the security environment of the 1990s, Japan already fielded a mature force with state-of-the-art submarines, and that the rise of a new naval competitor aiming at controlling key strategic points along Japan's sea lanes reconfirmed the critical importance of submarine operations to Japanese national security.     

NUCLEAR ISLANDS

Current International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards do not provide adequate protection against the diversion to military use of materials or technology from certain types of sensitive nuclear fuel cycle facilities. In view of highly enriched uranium's relatively greater ease of use as a nuclear explosive material than plutonium and the significant diseconomies of commercial spent fuel reprocessing, this article focuses on the need for improved international controls over uranium enrichment facilities as the proximate justification for creation of an International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Association (INFCA). In principle, the proposal is equally applicable to alleviating the proliferation concerns provoked by nuclear fuel reprocessing plants and other sensitive nuclear fuel cycle facilities. The INFCA would provide significantly increased nonproliferation assurance to its member states and the wider international community by holding long-term leasehold contracts to operate secure restricted zones containing such sensitive nuclear facilities.     

地磁导航旋回法自差校正系数的适用性研究

针对地磁导航系统,从直感式地磁导航系统的自差分析出发,解出直感式地磁导航系统的自差校正公式与舰艇纵横摇倾角之间的关系,并分析了纵横摇测量误差对于最后磁航向的影响,以及在潜艇正常的纵横摇范围内自差校正公式中系数的稳定性,即研究了地磁导航旋回法自差校正系数的适用性以达到提高地磁导航精度的目的。对于舰船地磁导航,尤其是对隐蔽性要求比较高的潜艇,具有现实的指导意义。     

指控软件可用性工程生命周期模型

针对当前装甲指控软件的应用现状和存在的问题,运用可用性工程理论和方法,提出了指控软件的可用性工程生命周期模型,该模型包括可用性需求分析、模型构建、可用性设计、可用性测试与评估、安装部署与使用体验、用户反馈等过程。通过与一般软件测试的比较,强调可用性测试实验环境的作用。该模型突出用户的作用,重视用户反馈,可为指控软件的设计和开发提供理论指导。     

循环经济与可持续发展

循环经济和知识经济并称为21世纪发展新亮点,也是世纪之交人类社会可持续发展的两大趋势。人类社会在经历了漫长的发展历史之后,正处于一种大量的资源、能量的耗费,大量的废物进入生存环境的状态,自然环境一次又一次向人类敲响警钟。本文试从循环经济这一视角来对其与可持续发展的问题进行探讨。     

基于全寿命周期费用分析的可重复使用运载器级数选择

建立了可重复使用运载器全寿命周期费用模型 ,并利用该费用模型分析了不同级数的可重复使用运载器方案的全寿命周期费用 ,对全寿命周期费用的各部分组成比例及其随级数的变化规律进行了分析。研究结果表明两级入轨的可重复使用运载器方案全寿命周期费用最低 ,是基于目前技术水平的一种较优的可重复使用运载器级数选择方案     

常规潜艇柴油机排气系统集水箱功能探析

剖析了常规潜艇柴油机排气系统中的最新设备——多功能集水箱的作用、工作原理,进而对它的推广应用及发展前景作些展望．     

轴扭转自由振动计算中基于传递矩阵的直接法

在各种复杂的分支传动扭振系统中,由于计算工作量大而对计算机内存及速度提出了一定的要求。本文比较了三种常用的计算扭振固有频率的方法(霍尔茨法、传递矩阵法和直接法),认为采用基于传递矩阵的直接法计算更简单、明了。因其不需要求解结点方程,故不会产生前两种方法中出现的方程奇异性问题。文中结合一个前后分叉的七分支系统,介绍了直接法的实际运用。     

主成因分析法在柴油机热力性能故障诊断中的应用

本文介绍了一种用于柴油机故障诊断的新方法——主成因分析法(P.C.A),它建立在柴油机故障试验的基础上。文章给出了故障诊断的建模方法并设计了柴油机诊断软件。故障诊断结果表明这种方法用于柴油机的故障诊断是可行的。     

用闪光摄影法对轴针式喷嘴喷雾的研究及其数学模型修正

利用自行设计的静态高压模拟燃烧室,采用闪光摄影技术,对12V180CaD—2柴油机轴针式喷油器的喷雾发展进行了实验研究,并根据实验结果对轴针式喷油器喷雾贯穿长度的计算公式进行了校核和修正。