Resourcing for defense: Solving the roles and missions puzzle

One of the most important issues facing the post‐Cold War U.S. defense establishment concerns the future allocation of combat tasks and responsibilities among different branches of the armed forces. The challenge is to reduce unnecessary redundancy across roles and missions when resources are highly constrained, without compromising military effectiveness. Defining the policy problem as one of resource allocation rather than operational effectiveness, we develop a methodology for allocating roles and missions. Our methodology focuses at the highest level of force aggregation and uses a mathematical programming model to produce cross‐service cross‐mission trade‐offs that will yield the best total force combat and non‐combat potential within resource consumption constraints.     

NUCLEAR STABILITY AT LOW NUMBERS

Chinese writings on the workings of nuclear stability, deterrence, and coercion are thin and politicized. Nevertheless, it is possible to glean, from direct and inferential evidence, rather pessimistic conclusions regarding Chinese views of nuclear stability at low numbers. While China has been living with low numbers in its own arsenal for decades, today it views missile defense and advanced conventional weapons as the primary threat to nuclear stability. More generally, China views nuclear stability as wedded to political amity. Because none of these would be directly addressed through further US and Russian arsenal reductions, China is unlikely to view such reductions as particularly stabilizing. While there is little in Chinese writing to suggest lower US and Russian numbers would encourage a “race to parity,” there are grounds to worry about China becoming more assertive as it gains confidence in Beijing's own increasingly secure second-strike forces.     

South Asia's Missile Expansion

ABSTRACT

Over the past decade, contrary to declarations that they are pursuing “minimum” deterrence, India and Pakistan have considerably expanded their missile forces. India has developed eleven types of missiles while Pakistan has fielded nine. These missile forces have a mixed impact on deterrence stability. Both states' medium-range missiles strengthen their countervalue deterrent capabilities against the other, though India's China-specific missiles still have limitations. India's and Pakistan's short-range missiles and first-generation naval systems raise concerns about nuclear ambiguity, command and control, and escalation across the nuclear threshold, ultimately undermining deterrence stability on the subcontinent.     

基于单元体设计的装甲装备弹目交会建模方法

为了提高作战仿真效果的可信度,提出了一种基于单元体的解决思路,并通过弹头终点弹道特性、装备几何特征、弹头与目标的关系分析,建立了陆军作战仿真的弹目交会模型。试验测试结果表明:该模型能够仿真作战过程中的弹头命中点坐标,满足作战仿真系统的准确性、实时性要求。     

美军试验鉴定体制改革分析及启示

改革是美军保持领先优势的关键招数.美国国防部于2018年1月启动了为期三年的新一轮战略管理体制改革,这既是加大技术创新力度,贯彻落实"第三次抵消战略"的重要举措,又是为顺应信息化时代战略管理新规律、新特点、新趋势而进行的一次全新尝试.本文认为,美军在对国防采办政策进行重大改革的基础上,对试验鉴定体制进行的一系列改革调整...     

潜艇水下回转运动稳定性分析

水下回转运动是潜艇常用的运动形式之一,属于潜艇转向运动的重要研究内容。回转运动过程中,潜艇受力复杂,容易出现分岔等非线性现象,潜艇运动稳定性变差。运用同伦延拓法、分岔理论和李雅普诺夫运动稳定性理论分析了潜艇水下回转运动稳定性,并通过数值仿真试验验证了分析结果的正确性和分析方法的有效性,为潜艇运动稳定性的研究提供了思路。     

无人机测控系统Turbo-MAP译码方法

无人机测控数据链系统与地面控制站进行的是遥测数据、侦察图像及遥控指令的传输,因此,高质量的通信是确保无人机数据链发挥效能的关键技术之一。针对无人机信道的特点和要求,研究了无人机信道的Turbo-MAP译码模型,提出一种无人机测控系统Turbo-MAP译码方法,并针对各种参数条件进行了Matlab仿真。实验结果证明,该方法能够保证在发送数据的时候尽量使用长度较长的数据包且增加交织深度,并显著提升译码BER性能。     

地球模型偏差对远程弹箭弹道仿真的影响及修正

针对地球模型精确度影响远程弹箭弹道仿真的问题,分析了地球模型偏差对弹道仿真精度的影响并加以修正。采用总的地球椭球系,在已有弹道模型的基础上,分析了垂线偏差的产生机理及其对定向定位参数的影响,并由此得出弹道几何偏移随定向偏差的变化规律,研究了引力加速度初值偏差对弹道的误差累积,并对由水准面不平行性造成的实际落点高差进行了理论推导。对比仿真算例表明,考虑地球模型偏差影响的仿真结果与不考虑的情况下差别较明显,在远程条件下对弹道仿真精度的影响不容忽视。     

关于舰用机电产品可靠性分布问题探讨

在失效机理分析的基础上,着重从理论上探讨了舰用机电产品在使用中的可靠性分布类型,并给出了简化的计算方法。