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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"friendly fire"”.
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A system theoretic safety analysis of friendly fire prevention in ground based missile systems
… model of accident causation to analyze a friendly fire accident that occurred on 22 March 03 between a British Tornado aircraft and a US Patriot Missile battery. This causation model analyzes system constraints, control loops, and process models to identify inadequate control structures …
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The Effects of Degraded Vision and Automatic Combat Identification Reliability on Infantry Friendly Fire Engagements
… and communication failures, navigation failures, fire discipline failures, and situation awareness failures. This research examined the effects of degraded vision and combat identification reliability on the time-stressed decision of a dismounted infantryman to engage friendly or threat targets. …
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Non-Hostile Casualties in These Kinds of Wars from the Korean War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
… non-hostile deaths, from illnesses, accidents, friendly fire, and other injuries, as well as the trends in each war and the impact that these casualties exerted at the time they happened. In addition, this thesis explores the lessons the Armed Forces leaders applied between the wars in an effort …
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Systems-theoretic safety analyses extended for coordination
… to investigate a Patriot missile friendly fire (2003) during Operation Iraqi Freedom, which is a relevant concern today. CAST-Coordination is successfully applied to the friendly-fire coordination problem. When compared to official government accident investigation reports, …
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A study of the thermal degradation of flexible tdi-based polyurethane foams
A novel environmentally friendly fire retardant formulation for use in polyurethane foams has previously been developed at the University of Strathclyde; however, the fundamental chemistry relating to the fire retardancy of this foam was not well understood. The purpose of this research project …
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Cytogenetic Analysis Of Depleted Uranium Exposure And Age-Dependent Susceptibility To Ionizing Radiation
… are Gulf War I Veterans exposed to DU during friendly fire incidents in 1991 involving DU munitions which resulted in inhalation and ingestion exposure to small particles of DU and soft tissue DU fragments from traumatic injuries. The Veterans are enrolled in a long term health surveillance …