Transportability guidance : STINGER weapon system.

"February 1981."

Fort Monroe Test Facility.

Mode of access: Internet.

Batalhão de Infantaria Mecanizado Português vs Regimento de Infantaria Mecanizado Francês : Estudo comparativo

Este trabalho de investigação aplicada é o reflexo de um estudo comparativo entre duas forças mecanizadas, nomeadamente o Batalhão de Infantaria Mecanizado português e o Regimento de Infantaria Mecanizado francês. Este estudo incide sobre quatro vetores de desenvolvimento, nomeadamente, a doutrina ao nível da tipologia das forças em estudo, da organização, ou seja, dos seus quadros orgânicos, ao material, mais propriamente os principais sistemas de armas empregues pelas duas forças, assim como às infraestruturas disponíveis para treino. O presente trabalho trata de um estudo comparativo, tendo como natureza a investigação aplicada. Este estudo comparativo tem como principal objetivo confrontar a doutrina com a prática, bem como identificar e caracterizar as principais vulnerabilidades e potencialidades das duas forças em estudo, tendo em conta os vetores de desenvolvimento anteriormente apresentados, podendo assim, rentabilizar os meios em uso no Batalhão de Infantaria Mecanizado e/ou contribuir para uma futura aquisição. Verificámos que a principal diferença entre as duas forças em estudo assenta na sua tipologia, isto é, enquanto que a força francesa é considerada pesada, a força portuguesa é média, embora pretenda e esteja no caminho de vir a ser uma força pesada. O que nos leva à grande diferença, derivada da tipologia de forças, que são as viaturas empregues pelas duas forças, ou seja, uma viatura blindada de transporte de pessoal e uma viatura de combate de infantaria. Para se assumir como força pesada, o Batalhão de Infantaria Mecanizado português, precisa de adquirir uma viatura de combate de infantaria, para assim, dar o “salto” qualitativo, numa perspetiva de armas combinadas. Palavras-Chave: Mecanizado, Vetores de Desenvolvimento, Viatura Blindada Transporte Pessoal, Viatura Combate de Infantaria.

O Emprego Operacional das Unidades de Reconhecimento Blindado na Guerra de África (1961-1975)

Com esta investigação pretende-se avaliar se as missões, a organização, os sistemas de armas, a instrução ou o treino das Unidades de reconhecimento, originalmente vocacionadas para atuar em operações convencionais, se constituíram como fatores limitadores do seu emprego na Guerra de África. Na realização desta investigação foi feito um estudo pormenorizado dos fatores em cima referidos. Quanto às missões, organização, instrução e treino foi realizado um estudo comparativo entre aquilo que existia, e que era praticado, com aquilo que foi executado e utilizado na guerra de África. Este estudo pretendia perceber as diferenças que existiram, e se estas foram de facto uma influência limitadora ao emprego destas unidades. Quanto aos sistemas de armas, foram analisados aqueles que foram empregues em África, pretendendo-se assim perceber quais é que foram as restrições destes sistemas. Para a realização desta investigação utilizamos o procedimento histórico e comparativo para realizarmos à comparação entre aquilo que existia e o que se executou no terreno, nos fatores missões, organização e instrução e treino. Na análise dos sistemas de armas utilizámos o procedimento histórico para a enumeração dos sistemas empregues e suas limitações. No final do estudo de cada fator deduzimos mediante os dados que foram sendo apresentados, se estes foram limitadores ao emprego destas unidades. Na recolha de dados utilizámos a pesquisa documental para a consulta de Quadros Orgânicos (QO), relatórios das unidades, relatórios das regiões militares, bem como manuais doutrinários das unidades de reconhecimento blindado. Utilizámos também a pesquisa bibliográfica para a consulta de teses sobre o reconhecimento blindado, artigos da Revista da Cavalaria, resenhas das campanhas de África, bem como livros alusivos à subversão e às campanhas de África. No final deste trabalho verificámos que os sistemas de armas foram a maior limitação destas unidades, pelo simples facto de terem influenciado todos os outros fatores em análise. Contudo vemos que as razões desta influência sobre os outros fatores poderiam verificar-se em qualquer tipo de conflito, visto serem derivadas dos problemas de sustentação das viaturas. Realmente existiram pequenas limitações em todos os fatores de análise neste conflito, em relação ao convencional, sendo que nos parece que foram contornadas com dedicação, e capacidade de improvisação das forças Portuguesas, para as ultrapassar.

To Ada or not To Ada: Adaing vs. Javaing in real-time systems

Ada is really an unfortunate Lady. After years fighting against C/C++ villains, her major lift-up (Ada 95) had brought up a promise of fortune. However, a new strong villain (Java) has appeared trying to end her struggle for survival. Ada has now to fight with her own weapons. She will only prosper by her own merits. But two questions emerge. Do they exist? Are they better than Java’s? Our opinion is that they do exist, and are not matched by any other programming language

Defensive weapons and defense signals in plants: Some metabolites serve both roles

The defense of plants against herbivores and pathogens involves the participation of an enormous range of different metabolites, some of which act directly as defensive weapons against enemies (toxins or deterrents) and some of which act as components of the complex internal signaling network that insures that defense is timed to enemy attack. Recent work reveals a surprising trend: The same compounds may act as both weapons and signals of defense. For example, two groups of well-studied defensive weapons, glucosinolates and benzoxazinoids, trigger the accumulation of the protective polysaccharide callose as a barrier against aphids and pathogens. In the other direction, several hormones acting in defense signaling (and their precursors and products) exhibit activity as weapons against pathogens. Knowing which compounds are defensive weapons, which are defensive signals and which are both is vital for understanding the functioning of plant defense systems.

Territorial Intelligence of Vulnerability Systems 2- Sustainable Modelling of Globalization Challenge

Globalization as progress of economic development has increased population socioeconomical vulnerability when unequal wealth distribution within economic development process constitutes the main rule, with widening the gap between rich and poors by environmental pricing. Econological vulnerability is therefore increasing too, as dangerous substance and techniques should produce polluted effluents and industrial or climatic risk increasing (Woloszyn, Quenault, Faburel, 2012). To illustrate and model this process, we propose to introduce an analogical induction-model to describe both vulnerability situations and associated resilience procedures. At this aim, we first develop a well-known late 80?s model of socio-economic crack-up, known as 'Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars', which presents economics as a social extension of natural energy systems. This last, also named 'E-model', is constituted by three passive components, potential energy, kinetic energy, and energy dissipation, thus allowing economical data to be treated as a thermodynamical system. To extend this model to social and ecological sustainability pillars, we propose to built an extended E(Economic)-S(Social)-O(Organic) model, based on the three previous components, as an open model considering feedbacks as evolution sources. An applicative illustration of this model will then be described, through this summer's american severe drought event analysis

Territorial Intelligence of Vulnerability Systems 2- Sustainable Modelling of Globalization Challenge

Globalization as progress of economic development has increased population socioeconomical vulnerability when unequal wealth distribution within economic development process constitutes the main rule, with widening the gap between rich and poors by environmental pricing. Econological vulnerability is therefore increasing too, as dangerous substance and techniques should produce polluted effluents and industrial or climatic risk increasing (Woloszyn, Quenault, Faburel, 2012). To illustrate and model this process, we propose to introduce an analogical induction-model to describe both vulnerability situations and associated resilience procedures. At this aim, we first develop a well-known late 80?s model of socio-economic crack-up, known as 'Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars', which presents economics as a social extension of natural energy systems. This last, also named 'E-model', is constituted by three passive components, potential energy, kinetic energy, and energy dissipation, thus allowing economical data to be treated as a thermodynamical system. To extend this model to social and ecological sustainability pillars, we propose to built an extended E(Economic)-S(Social)-O(Organic) model, based on the three previous components, as an open model considering feedbacks as evolution sources. An applicative illustration of this model will then be described, through this summer's american severe drought event analysis

Territorial Intelligence of Vulnerability Systems 2- Sustainable Modelling of Globalization Challenge

Globalization as progress of economic development has increased population socioeconomical vulnerability when unequal wealth distribution within economic development process constitutes the main rule, with widening the gap between rich and poors by environmental pricing. Econological vulnerability is therefore increasing too, as dangerous substance and techniques should produce polluted effluents and industrial or climatic risk increasing (Woloszyn, Quenault, Faburel, 2012). To illustrate and model this process, we propose to introduce an analogical induction-model to describe both vulnerability situations and associated resilience procedures. At this aim, we first develop a well-known late 80?s model of socio-economic crack-up, known as 'Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars', which presents economics as a social extension of natural energy systems. This last, also named 'E-model', is constituted by three passive components, potential energy, kinetic energy, and energy dissipation, thus allowing economical data to be treated as a thermodynamical system. To extend this model to social and ecological sustainability pillars, we propose to built an extended E(Economic)-S(Social)-O(Organic) model, based on the three previous components, as an open model considering feedbacks as evolution sources. An applicative illustration of this model will then be described, through this summer's american severe drought event analysis

Shock tube studies of the effects of sharp-rising, long-duration overpressures on biological systems /

Shock tubes have been used successfully by a number of investigators to study the biological effects of variations in environmental pressures (1,2,3). Recently an unusually versatile laboratory pressurization source became available with the capability of consistently reproducing a wide variety of pressure-time phenomena of durations equal to and well beyond those associated with the detonation of nuclear devices (4). Thus it became possible to supplement costly full-scale field research in blast biology carried out at the Nevada Test Site (5,6) by using an economical yet realistic laboratory tool. In one exploratory study employing pressure pulses of 5 to 10 sec duration wherein the times to max overpressure and the magnitudes of the overpressures were varied, a relatively high tolerance of biological media to pressures well over 150 psi was demonstrated (7). In contrast, the present paper will describe the relatively high biological susceptibility to long duration overpressures in which the pressure rises occurred in single and double fast-rising steps.

Design of electric systems for naval aircraft and missiles; technical manual.

"NAVWEPS 01-1A-514."

Ordnance systems component rework : depot level maintenance operations.

Cover title.

Vulcan's forge : the making of an Air Force Command for weapons acquisition, 1950-1985 /

Includes index.

An interpretive approach to analysing the role and value of information systems in Jordanian financial organisations

Analysing investments in ISs in order to maximise benefits has become a prime concern, especially for private corporations. No formula of equilibrium exists that could link the injected amounts and accrued returns. The relationship is simply not straightforward. This thesis is based upon empirical work which involved sketching organisational ethnographies (four organographies and a sectography) into the role and value of information systems in Jordanian financial organisations. Besides deciphering the map of impacts, it explains the attributions of the variations in the impacts of ISs which were found to be related to the internal organisational processes: culturally and politically specific considerations, economically or technically rooted factors and environmental factors. The research serves as an empirical attempt to test out the applicability of adopting the interpretive paradigm to researching organisations in a developing country. The fieldwork comprised an exploratory stage, a detailed investigation of four case studies and a survey stage encompassing 16 organisations. Primary and secondary data were collected from multiple sources using a range of instruments. The evidence highlights the fact that little long term strategic planning was pursued; the emphasis was more focused on short term planning. There was no noticeable adoption of any strategic fit principle linking IS strategy to the corporate strategy. In addition, the benefits obtained were mostly intangible. Although ISs were central to the work of the organisations surveyed as the core technology, they were considered as tools or work enablers rather than weapons for competitive rivalry. The cultural specificity of IS impacts was evident and the cultural and political considerations were key factors in explaining the attributions of the variations in the impacts of ISs in JFOs. The thesis confirms that measuring the benefits of ISs is the problematic. However, in order to gain more insight, the phenomenon of "the use of ISs" has to be studied within its context.

The Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Global Security Strategy of the EU

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) is one of the main security challenges facing the international community today. However the new Global Security Strategy of 2016 raises the question of non-proliferation of WMD only as an incidental matter, not addressing directly the threat, a fundamental threat in the regional and global security. This is a clear step backwards for the European common security.