抗击临近空间高超声速飞行器对策研究

在未来的空袭作战中,临近空间高超声速飞行器具有其他武器所不可比拟的优势,它必将成为一种新威胁。首先分析了该飞行器的卓越性能,简述了它的军事用途,其次论述了它的出现对防空反导体系所产生的影响,最后针对这种新型的威胁,提出了几点应对措施。     

考虑弹体动态特性的机动效率约束导引律

针对考虑交会角和过载约束导引律在大机动时能量损失大的问题,提出一种考虑导弹机动效率的多约束制导律。应用最优二次型原理推导出考虑一阶弹体延迟的时变导引系数闭环次优制导形式,将导弹机动时刻阻力系数引入时变权系数,并通过迭代确定机动效率约束边界。将时变约束表示成剩余时间与弹体延迟时间的函数,代入制导指令,进行弹道仿真。结果表明,对于常值与机动目标,文中制导律与过载约束导引律同只考虑交会角约束的导引律相比,对目标均能实现末端弹道成型要求,而考虑机动效率的制导指令分配更为合理,在避免指令加速度饱和的同时有效降低了拦截末端速度损耗,提高制导精度与毁伤效果。且该制导律中时变权系数无须配平求解,在保证精度的同时极大地提高了迭代速度。     

建筑消防设计中疏散时间的确定方法

本文针对建筑消防设计中疏散时间计算这一关键问题 ,利用疏散行为指数确定生活不能自理的人的疏散能力 ,进而确定其疏散时间 ,为建筑消防安全设计和防火管理工作提供理论依据。文中介绍的方法、计算公式及步骤简捷 ,具有一定的实用价值。     

ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES FOR ARMS CONTROL

The efforts of President Barack Obama and his administration to restore the United States as a driving force of multilateral arms control and nonproliferation negotiations are commendable, yet the lack of progress on such issues over the last eight years has ensured that U.S. policy has not kept pace with changes in the geostrategic environment and the evolving security agenda. Meanwhile, an alternative agenda has been articulated by non-Western countries. This article focuses on the arms control perspectives of Non-Aligned Movement states and others that have begun to embrace the idea of “disarmament as humanitarian action.” It explores this idea in the context of recent initiatives and argues that if the Obama administration wants to make progress on its arms control and nonproliferation priorities, it should consider a multifaceted approach that incorporates this emerging alternative agenda.     

Compensating military veterans in South Africa

This article outlines the widespread needs of South African military veterans and the possible consequences if the promises made in the recent Military Veterans Act are not met. The first part of the article defines who generally qualifies as a military veteran, how they are typically compensated in various countries with specific reference to neighbouring southern African countries, and what the consequences are when veterans become disenchanted with the state. The second part focuses on South Africa and the recent debates on military veterans and their entitlements. With reference to the findings of a qualitative study conducted among military veterans, parliamentary debates and media reports, an assessment is made of the demands and affordability of promised benefits and the consequences should the state not deliver. The conclusion is reached that heightened expectations are presently frustrated by slow roll-outs, and this is likely to increase the possibility of protest action. This has now the potential to create further tension within the ruling party and civil society, as the pressure on public finances mounts and demands become unsustainable. The effect this may have on political stability will depend on how the government manages this issue.     

CS模型下IMM-PF算法在机动目标跟踪中的应用

为了解决机动目标定位跟踪问题,提出了一种基于CS(current statistical)模型的交互式多模型粒子滤波算法.在交互式多模型粒子滤波算法的基础上,计算CS模型的概率,自适应地调整CS模型中的目标加速度,反映出了目标的机动特性,充分发挥2种算法的优点,改善了CS模型的加速度不能自适应调整的缺点,提高了CS模型的自适应性和应用范围.另外,CS模型的自适应滤波方法由Kalman滤波改为粒子滤波.通过Monte Carlo对比仿真试验表明了该算法的可行性和优越性.     

基于模型概率估计的两层交互多模型算法

在机动目标跟踪问题的研究中,针对转弯机动目标跟踪精度差的问题,设计了一种利用模型概率对模型集合进行实时计算的两层交互多模型算法。该算法由第一层目标转弯速率的粗估计和第二层目标状态向量的精估计构成,它利用第一层模型计算出的目标运动估计转弯速率,构建与当前目标运动状态匹配程度较高的第二层转弯模型集合,并将该转弯模型集合运用于状态估计中。仿真结果证明了该算法在针对转弯机动目标时仍有较好的跟踪精度。     

分队战术训练仿真系统CGF技术

计算机生成兵力(CGF)是攻防对抗作战仿真的重要组成部分和重点研究内容,也是分队战术训练仿真系统的一个重要技术支撑。给出了仿真系统中CGF实体在基于HLA协议下的功能结构和拓扑结构,介绍了仿真系统中CGF建模所研究的内容和实体建模技术,最后指出了将人工智能技术应用于CGF实体行为决策建模的思路。     

转向机动条件下利用拖船航迹的拖线阵阵形估计

针对水动力模型(water-pulley模型)适用范围有限的问题,提出一种对拖船航迹进行平滑得到拖线阵声阵段运动轨迹,进而实现阵形估计的方法。通过分析缆的稳态振荡响应特性,近似认为声阵段上各点沿同一轨迹运动;设计平滑窗将拖船回转机动航迹平滑为声阵段航迹,并将其拓展应用于拖船转向机动的情况;利用平滑窗的一部分对距离拖船不足平滑窗宽度的航迹部分进行平滑得到当前拖缆段阵形,从而实现转向机动过程中全阵阵形的实时估计。仿真结果表明:若拖线阵由间隔为5 m的81个阵元构成,所提出的方法与朴素water-pulley模型相比可以使转向机动过程中的平均阵增益提高约0.8 dB,平均方位估计偏差减小约4.7°。利用仿真结果分析算法的输入敏感性,对阵形估计方法进行简化使其更易于工程实现,海试数据验证表明简化的方法可行、有效。     

Casualty Rates of US Military Personnel During the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Abstract

In Operation Iraqi Freedom, which ended in August 2010, nearly 3500 hostile deaths occurred among US military personnel and 32,000 more were wounded in action (WIA). More than 1800 hostile deaths occurred during Operation Enduring Freedom (in and around Afghanistan) through 2014 and about 20,000 were WIA. A larger proportion of wounded personnel survived in Iraq and Afghanistan than during the Vietnam War, but the increased survival rates were not as high as some studies have asserted. The survival rates were 90.2% in Iraq and 91.6% in Afghanistan, compared with 86.5% in Vietnam. The casualty rates varied between the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and before, during, and after the respective surges. Amputation rates are difficult to measure consistently, but I estimate that 2.6% of all WIA and 9.0% of medically evacuated WIA from the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters combined resulted in the major loss of a limb. Elevated non-hostile death rates (including deaths due to accidents, illnesses, homicides, or suicides) resulted in about 220 more deaths in Iraq and about 200 more deaths in Afghanistan than would have been expected in peacetime among populations of the size deployed to those two conflicts.