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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Munitions Development written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul G. Gillespie
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Weapons of Choice written by Paul G. Gillespie and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and deployment of smart weapons In the United States, efforts to develop precision guided munitions—PGMs—began during the First World War and resulted in an 'aerial torpedo' by the 1920s. While World War II was dominated by large-scale strategic bombing—essentially throwing out tons of free-falling munitions in the hope they hit something important—both sides in the war worked to develop airborne munitions that could be steered toward a target. However after that war, U.S. national security policy focused on the atomic bomb, hardly a weapon that needed to be directed with accuracy. The cost of emphasis on atomic weapons was revealed in the general unsuitability of American tactics and weapons deployment systems during the Vietnam War. Lessons learned in that conflict, coupled with rapid technological developments in aerodynamics, lasers, and solid-state electronics, brought air power dramatically closer to the "surgical strike" now seen as crucial to modern warfare. New technology created attractive choices and options for American policymakers as well as field commanders, and events in the Arab-Israeli wars, the U.S. raid on Libya, and most dramatically in the first Gulf War created an ever-increasing demand for the precision weapons. The prospect of pinpoint delivery of weapons right to the enemy's door by speeding aircraft seems to presage war in which the messy and politically risky deployment of ground troops is unnecessary. The potential of such weapons, and their strategic limitations, made the Gulf War and Iraqi War living theater for assessing what such weapons can and cannot do and have important implications for planning for future warfare.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309477352
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400,000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60,000 tons are added to the stockpile each year. Munitions include projectiles, bombs, rockets, landmines, and missiles. Open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of these munitions has been a common disposal practice for decades, although it has decreased significantly since 2011. OB/OD is relatively quick, procedurally straightforward, and inexpensive. However, the downside of OB and OD is that they release contaminants from the operation directly into the environment. Over time, a number of technology alternatives to OB/OD have become available and more are in research and development. Alternative technologies generally involve some type of contained destruction of the energetic materials, including contained burning or contained detonation as well as contained methods that forego combustion or detonation. Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions reviews the current conventional munitions demilitarization stockpile and analyzes existing and emerging disposal, treatment, and reuse technologies. This report identifies and evaluates any barriers to full-scale deployment of alternatives to OB/OD or non-closed loop incineration/combustion, and provides recommendations to overcome such barriers.
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Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition: Precision Guided Munitions in Inventory, Production, and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military services have bought or are developing for future procurement 33 PGM types with over 300,000 individual precision munitions to attack surface targets. The services estimate that when planned development and procurement are complete, the United States will have invested about $58.6 billion (then-year dollars) in the 33 PGM types. The 19 munition types in inventory and production provIde about 130,422 individual munitions at a cost of about $30.4 billion. They are carried on Air Force bombers and fighters and on Navy fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and ships. The 14 munition types in development have a combined estimated acquisition cost of about $28.2 billion and quantities of about 174,446. In addition to the Air Force and Navy platforms cited above, some of these munitions are to be launched from Army platforms, such as the Multiple Launch Rocket System launcher. The developmental munitions are expected to reach first capability (i.e., when the services plan to begin fielding them) between 1996 and 2004. Figure 1 shows the allocation of quantities by service in inventory, production, and development. (KAR) P. 3.
Author : United States. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command
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Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (269 download)
Download or read book New Developments in Armament and Munitions written by United States. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pelagio Castelo Branco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402027958
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Defense Industries written by Pelagio Castelo Branco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of the art in the area of security related civil science and technology concerning energetic materials and munitions is of pressing importance at the present time, because 10 years after the end of the cold war, in many countries in east and west, huge stockpiles of munitions still await destruction. The safety behavior of munitions and their energetic material is the determining factor for all precautionary measures for the protection of environment and population. The probability of a catastrophic reaction of munitions and their energetic components will be so more likely, the closer the munitions are to the end of their life time. Residues and undetected ordnance, recycling, destruction of ammunition and depletion or reuse of energetic materials will either cause more or less damage to environment. Scientific research and development have the aim to increase performance of munitions on one side and to improve safety in relation to unpredictable events on the other side. The impact on the environment by the production and normal use of munitions and their residues after use will acquire an increasing importance in environmental awareness. The excellent technical presentations were classified in five Groups, according to the technical programme. The "Introduction to the subject; Methods, tests and application; Insensitive and "green" munitions; Storage and transportation; and Demilitarisation and recycling" sessions, were closed by a final and general interesting discussion among participants.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Military Munitions written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Australia. Department of Munitions
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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (216 download)
Download or read book The Development of the Ministry of Munitions written by Australia. Department of Munitions and published by . This book was released on 1945* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428942408
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Military munitions DOD needs to develop a comprehensive approach for cleaning up contaminated sites : report to the Honorable John D. Dingell, Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constance McLaughlin Green
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Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Ordnance Department written by Constance McLaughlin Green and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernetta Hohlt
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Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition written by Bernetta Hohlt and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the DOD acquisition process? The Weapons Acquisition Process Economic Incentives What are the phases of the acquisition process? Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency What are the components of Big A Acquisition? Defence Major Projects Report What is the purpose of the defense acquisition system? Department Of Defence Projects The book discovers the shocking truth behind the political fudging and excuses and the reasons why the situation will not change without dramatic reform. Filled with specific examples from Australian defense projects, this book shines a spotlight on existing processes and outlines a proven method for change based on decades of experience with lean product development techniques.
Author : G. Wayne Glass
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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Concurrent Weapons Development and Production written by G. Wayne Glass and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas L. McNaugher
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815718705
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book New Weapons, Old Politics written by Thomas L. McNaugher and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans spend more than $100 billion a year to buy weapons, but no one likes the process that brings these weapons into existence. The problem, McNaugher shows, is that the technical needs of engineers and military planners clash sharply with the political demands of Congress. McNaugher examines weapons procurement since World War II and shows how repeated efforts to improve weapons acquisition have instead increased the harmful intrusion of political pressures into that technical development and procurement process. Today's weapons are more complicated than their predecessors. So are the nation's military forces. The design of new systems and their integration into the force structure demand more care, time, and flexibility. Yet time and flexibility are precisely what political pressures remove from the acquisitions process. In a series of case studies and conceptual discussions, McNaugher tackles concerns at the heart of the debate about acquisition—the slow and heavily bureaucratic approach to development, the preference for ultimate weapons over well-organized and trained forces, and the counterproductive incentives facing the nation's defense firms. He calls for changes that run against the current fashion—less centralization or procurement, less haste in developing new weapons, and greater use of competition as a means of removing the development process from political oversight. Above all, McNaugher shows how the United States tries to buy research and development on the cheap, and how costly this has been. The nation can improve its acquisition process, he concludes, only when it recognizes the need to pay for the full exploration of new technology.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309096731
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.
Author : U.S. Department of Defense
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Improvised Munitions Handbook – Learn How to Make Explosive Devices & Weapons from Scratch (Warfare Skills Series) written by U.S. Department of Defense and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Improvised Munitions Handbook, written by the U.S. Department of Defense, is a comprehensive guide that provides detailed instructions on how to create explosive devices and weapons from scratch. In a time where knowledge of warfare skills is crucial, this book serves as a valuable resource for individuals seeking to understand the production of munitions in a military context. The literary style is straightforward and technical, with a focus on step-by-step instructions and illustrations for clarity. The content is presented in a concise and practical manner, making it accessible to readers with a basic understanding of weaponry and explosives. As the authority on military operations and weapons development, the U.S. Department of Defense brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the creation of this handbook. The author's expertise in the field of defense and security is evident in the detailed explanations and safety precautions provided throughout the book. The motivation behind writing this handbook is to equip individuals with the necessary skills to create improvised munitions in emergency situations or combat environments. I highly recommend the Improvised Munitions Handbook to military personnel, law enforcement officers, survivalists, and individuals interested in the technical aspects of weaponry. This book is a valuable resource for understanding the production and use of explosive devices, and serves as a practical guide for those seeking to enhance their knowledge of munitions.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309174783
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Toxicologic Assessment of the Army's Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-05-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Army conducted atmospheric dispersion tests in many American cities using fluorescent particles of zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) to develop and verify meteorological models to estimate the dispersal of aerosols. Upon learning of the tests, many citizens and some public health officials in the affected cities raised concerns about the health consequences of the tests. This book assesses the public health effects of the Army's tests, including the toxicity of ZnCdS, the toxicity of surrogate cadmium compounds, the environmental fate of ZnCdS, the extent of public exposures from the dispersion tests, and the risks of such exposures.
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Publisher : Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction written by and published by Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
