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Battlespace Technologies
Artech House 2010; US$ 139.00The era of mechanized warfare is rapidly giving way to the battle for information superiority enabled by electronic technologies that provide data for detailed analysis of enemy forces and capabilities. Supported with over 400 four-color photographs and illustrations, this new book is written and designed specifically to help non-specialists... more...
Lighter than Air Robots
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99An aerial robot is a system capable of sustained flight with no direct human control and able to perform a specific task. A lighter than air robot is an aerial robot that relies on the static lift to balance its own weight. It can also be defined as a lighter than air unmanned aerial vehicle or an unmanned airship with sufficient autonomy. Lighter... more...
Assembling and Supporting the Joint Strike Fighter in the UK
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95This report contains an analysis conductedfor the UK Ministry of Defence regarding its plan to buy up to 150 JointStrike Fighters. The authors found significant overlap between final assembly and repair and estimated the costs of various final assembly options. more...
Lightweight ballistic composites
Woodhead Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 280.00Ballistic composites need to be lightweight and durable as well as exhibiting high impact resistance and damage tolerance. This important book reviews these requirements, how the materials used for ballistic composites meet them and their range of applications. The first part of the book explores material requirements and testing. There are chapters... more...
Space and Security
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 55.00Two-and-a-half years before Russia launched the first Sputnik satellites in 1957, the United States had already established a secret policy that emphasized peaceful applications of space technology and set the precedent of using satellite overflight for reconnaissance collection. Almost all of the organization and management structures that were created... more...
Safety and Reliability in Cooperating Unmanned Aerial Systems
World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 125.00This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the analysis and design of health management systems for cooperating unmanned aerial vehicles. Such systems rely upon monitoring and fault adaptation schemes. Motivation for their study comes from the fact that, despite the use of fault-tolerant control software and hardware embedded... more...
U.S. Army Guide to Rigging
Skyhorse Publishing 2013; US$ 5.99Have you ever tried to rig your own sailboat? How about tying up the boat to the dock? Have you ever made a ladder or hoist? Learning rigging can be tricky, but with the U.S. Army Guide to Rigging (FM 5-125), youll learn everything you need to know about rigging, from how to properly tie a rope to a rock to how to make rope chairs and build whole... more...
Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95As part of a larger study of support for Expeditionary Aerospace Forces, this work addresses logistics structure alternatives for meeting demands for Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) across a spectrum of operational requirements. more...
Reconfiguring Footprint to Speed Expeditionary Aerospace Forces Deployment
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95To ease the burden of deploying large amounts of aircraft, personnel, and equipment to theatres of operation in times of crisis, the Air Force has reorganized into an Expeditionary Aerospace Force. This work covers a way for defining the structure to speed deployment to forward operating locations. more...
Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This briefing assesses the utility of the Reliability, Avalilability and Maintainability of Pods (RAMPOD) database as an analytical tool in support of the electronic countermeasure (ECM) system, which is a component of the support system for the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF). more...









