无人机伞降回收系统设计与实现

对无人机伞降回收系统的组成及工作原理进行研究,在此基础上依据无人机总体要求对回收系统进行详细设计,综合考虑系统开伞动载、稳降速度及回收减震等要求,系统采用减速伞引导、主伞收口及减震气囊缓冲的回收方式,通过仿真分析及实际飞行试验验证,系统设计合理可行,满足无人机回收要求。     

基于动态时间规整算法的车辆目标分类研究

将动态时间规整(Dynamic Time Warping)算法应用于地面车辆目标的分类识别中。基于微多普勒效应原理,建立了轮式车辆和履带式车辆雷达回波模型,对两种车辆目标微多普勒信号的差异性进行了分析,并结合实测数据,验证了理论分析的正确性。在杂波抑制及速度归一化处理的基础上,利用动态时间规整算法,将提取出的车辆目标的累积失真距离作为目标分类识别的依据,实现了轮式车辆和履带式车辆的自动分类。基于实测数据的实验结果表明,该方法在不同信噪比条件下都具有较好的分类性能。     

采用SHLPN分析特种车载总线网络可靠性

针对特种车载总线网络可靠性难以评估的问题,提出采用随机高级Petri网(Stochastic High-level Petri Net,SHLPN)分析特种车载总线网络可靠性。深入分析特种车载总线网络故障模式的基础上,将其等效为冗余总线控制器模块、远程终端模块和冗余链路模块的串联,分别建立各个模块的SHLPN模型,得到了各个模块的稳态可用度计算式,进而综合得到特种车载总线网络的稳态可用度计算式。最后,实例分析验证了所提方法的有效性。     

军用电传动车辆混合动力系统能量管理技术

混合动力系统是军用电传动车辆具有优越性能的基础,能量管理技术则负责实现负载需求在系统中各动力源间的合理分流及部件的优化控制,是军用车辆混合动力系统研究的关键技术之一。分析了军用车辆混合动力系统的特点,研究了其对系统能量管理的影响,总结了当前能量管理技术研究现状,最终,针对当前能量管理技术存在的问题提出了相应的解决方案。     

平底气泡船凹槽气层波动特性

为提高大型平底气泡船底部凹槽设计的有效性,基于RANS方程及VOF两相流模型构建了大型平板船凹槽气层数值计算模型。研究气层在凹槽中的动态发展过程,分析速度对气层波动的影响规律,并阐述三维凹槽气层的波形特性及其与二维气层波动的区别,揭示气层波动的相似律。数值结果表明:气层在凹槽中呈现波动形态,气层波长随速度的增加而增大,波长等于速度平方的0.64倍;气层在凹槽侧壁的干扰及反射下呈现相干波系,从而其波高及局部厚度也随之改变;气层波动满足傅汝德相似。     

Militarism in post-war Cyprus: the development of the ideology of defence

This article provides a theorisation of militarism in post-war Cyprus. Based on qualitative empirical research conducted in Cyprus in 2011, the article explores the manifestation and steadfastness of Greek-Cypriot militarism, and the development of this militarism, which appeared after the partition of the island in 1974. In particular, it proposes the ideology of defence as a way to understand post-war Greek-Cypriot militarism. It shows the embedded nature of defence in the idea of the national struggle. It aims at mapping the character of this militarism in order to provide the grounds for future discussion. Only by understanding the interconnecting discourses that made Greek-Cypriot militarism possible in post-war Cyprus, can we understand its past, present, and future.     

Brothers in arms,yet again? Twenty-first century Sino-Russian strategic collaboration in the realm of defence and security

2014–2015 were years of turmoil for strategic relations, with Sino-Russian relations emerging as a particularly interesting set of ties to observe. This article asks whether recurrent Sino-Russian exhortations of friendship are mirrored by their strategic alignment in the defence and security realm, half a century after the end of the Sino-Soviet pact during the communist era. We examine the arms trade between the two countries and with regional partners, but also the recent pattern of bilateral and multilateral military exercises, as a combined test of the security and defence relationship. We are able to show that the image of friendship that both Moscow and Beijing like to promote, while apparent at the UN Security Council and within the BRICS group, remains constrained by rivalry in high-tech segments of the arms industry and by lingering concerns about the prospects of peer interference in their shared regional vicinity.     

Gendered divisions of military labour in the British armed forces

This paper examines statistical data on the employment of women in the British armed forces. It reviews some of the issues shaping debates about women’s military employment, in order to establish the on-going significance of the topic. It looks at patterns of female military employment across the three services, and places discussion of this in the context of observations about gendered divisions of labour in the wider UK labour market. It examines data for the gendered divisions of labour within different corps, branches and occupational groups within each of the three armed services, and looks at gender patterns across ranks. It concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for both policy and conceptual work on women’s military participation.     

After ISAF: partners and proxies in Afghanistan after 2014

The conclusion of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan at the end of 2014 has generated substantial uncertainty about the duration and level of international commitment to Afghanistan. The fate of local allies of international forces is therefore deeply in doubt. This article is of necessity speculative rather than empirical, but it attempts to draw on the history of previous intervention in Afghanistan as well as more general patterns of local and external alliance to sketch plausible scenarios for the fate of local allies. It proceeds in four parts. First, it draws distinctions between different types of local allies in Afghanistan based on position and relationship to the Afghan state and an external actor. Second, it examines the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan for relevant lessons for the fate of local allies. Third, it presents a scenario based on the foregoing that assumes there will be an ongoing small but significant international military presence and accompanying resources. Fourth, it presents a scenario that assumes there will be no or minimal international military presence and accompanying resources.     

French intervention in Mali: strategic alliances,long-term regional presence?

The March 2012 coup in Mali opened the door to expanded territorial occupation in northern Mali by Tuareg separatists and subsequently armed Islamist extremists. French forces intervened at the behest of the interim government in Mali. This article examines how various actors frame the conflict to their advantage. While the Malian government and France are allies, the position of various Tuareg actors shift over time as they strategize and weigh the value of allegiance with the French. Local extremist organizations are labeled as terrorists and are targeted as enemies. This article argues that the conflict has been decontextualized and framed within the ‘war on terror’. France’s decision to intervene and to expand their regional military presence, rather than exit, is legitimized by the framing of their intervention as integral to counterterrorism efforts.