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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"bomber"”.
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The Strategic Bomber in the Nuclear Age
The strategic bomber is the only vehicle to have delivered a nuclear warhead in a time of war. With this milestone, the bomber became inexorably linked with nuclear deterrence. Since then the strategic bomber has struggled to find its purpose outside the mission of strategic nuclear delivery. The …
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The B-1B bomber : a program history
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1988.
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Handheld infrared camera use for suicide bomb detection: feasibility of use for thermal model comparison
… the heat signature produced by a suicide bomber using thermal models that predict the temperature of the exterior layers of clothing worn. The goal is to be able to compare the images acquired of the suspected bomber to the expected temperatures from the thermal models. If the presence of …
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The socio-technical construction of precision bombing : a study of shared control and cognition by humans, machines, and doctrine during World War II
… War II in the opening phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany. It presents the system as distinctly sociotechnical, constructed of interdependent specially trained humans-the pilot, navigator, and bombardier-purpose-built automated machines-the Norden bombsight and the …
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Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Optimization of an Efficient Supersonic Air Vehicle
… Vehicle (ESAV). This is a long-range military bomber type of aircraft that is to be designed for high speed (supersonic) flight and survivability. The design metric used to differentiate designs is minimization of the take-off gross weight. The usefulness of MDO tools, rather than …
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By Air Power Alone: America's Strategic Air War in China, 1941-1945
… which Joseph Stilwell accurately warned. 20th Bomber Command used B-29s to wage Operation Matterhorn, failed, and later conducted PACAID missions. 14th Air Force then waged a counterproductive transportation campaign as The Pacific War, also known as the Greater East Asian War, ended. Events in …
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Determining the influence on technology integration by the problem solving styles of instructors of history, classics and humanities courses
More is spent on a single B-2 bomber than the combined annual budgets of the National Endowments for the Arts, the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. History, classical, humanities studies instructors are traditionally the last to receive instruction on integrating technology …
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Wolves In Chic Clothing: Gender, Media and the Securitization of Female Suicide Bombers
<p>The numbers of female suicide bombers are becoming legion, and their exploits are becoming legend. Consequently, terrorist groups and the media can no longer afford to ignore the advantages of adding female leads in their narratives and newscasts. This dissertation seeks to reveal trends in news …
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A Clipped Wing: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the B-21
… of the Northrop Grumman B-21 long range strike bomber in advancing the ability of U.S. policy makers to achieve national security objectives. The operational value of the B-21 is assessed through analysing its probable role in four hypothetical combat scenarios, and the relative effectiveness of …
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Reduction of a Radar Cross Section Using Active Antenna Elements
… F-117 fighter aircraft, the Boeing B-2 nuclear bomber and the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000). Here a new approach to solving this problem is explored, which is based on the principal of destructive interface between the reflected (returned) radar signal from the object and a radiated signal that …
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The strategic leadership and direction of the Royal Air Force Strategic air offensive against Germany from inception to 1945
… thesis examines the complexities of the Combined Bomber Offensive and Overlord.
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Radicalization within the Somali-American diaspora: countering the homegrown terrorist threat
… Shirwa Ahmed became the first U.S. suicide bomber; he detonated his explosives laden vehicle in front of a government compound in Hargesa, Somaliland. Ahmed's transformation from average American teenager to an Islamic jihadist was gradual and complex. This thesis will examine how Ahmed and …
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Mind the Gap: The Failure of the Central Intelligence Agency to Support U.S. National Interests
… Soviet threat was consistently inaccurate. The bomber and missile gaps of the 1950s, which involved overestimating Soviet long-range bombers and missiles, was followed by a decade of underestimating Soviet Intercontinental Ballistic Missile deployments. Similarly, one episode of underestimating …
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Medmenham: Anglo-American Photographic Intelligence in the Second World War
… in 1940, Operation Millennium, the first 1,000 bomber raid of the war in 1942, Operation Chastise, the Ruhr dams raid in 1943 and Operation Epsom, the first large scale operation after D-Day to capture Caen in June 1944.<br/><br/>The primary methodology employed is a detailed examination of the …
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Bird Strike Risk Assessment for United States Air Force Airfields and Aircraft
… for USAF aircraft and selected USAF airfields. Bomber aircraft had the highest strike rate; these aircraft frequently fly long missions at low altitudes where they are likely to encounter birds. Logistic regression analyses estimated odds of occurrence for damaging bird strikes during airfield …
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"Freedom From Camps": Housing and Power In theExperience of Sri Lankan Long-Term Refugees In India
… was assassinated by a Sri Lankan Tamil suicide bomber who may have arrived in India with other refugees from Sri Lanka. Considering the event as a threat to national security, the government of India created warehouse refugee camps for the Sri Lankan refugees. In this research, I focus on the …
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The politics of innovative military doctrine : the U.S. Navy and fleet ballistic missiles
… Navy systems provided a superior alternative to bomber and ICBM weapon systems of the time, but only Polaris provoked innovative changes in U.S. nuclear doctrine. These cases of innovative and stagnant doctrine are compared and used to test the explanatory power of three competing theories of the …
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Evaluating the legitimacy of national security practices and anti-terrorism legislation
… steps. For example, if there is a suicide bomber on the London tube with a detonator in his hand waiting to go under a tunnel before detonating the bomb causing injures and deaths, police have a positive obligation to protect the lives of the people. The correct assumption that the police …
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The Death of the Flying Wing : The Real Reasons Behind the 1949 Cancellation of Northrop Aircraft's RB-49
… argued against it (and for the competing B-36 bomber) before a board of senior Air Force officers just before the cancellation; Gen. Lauris O. Norstad, the sole surviving member of that senior officer's board, who vigorously rejected any suggestion of improper behavior by Senator Symington in …
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