Missile Defence Shields: Automated and Anticipatory Self-Defence?

Reliability and Availability of the Coastal Missile Defence System

Reliability is one of the main salient assets of modern weapon systems. The estimation of the failure rate of the major subsystems of military defence systems is of utmost importance in the design of any country's overall defence system. The results of a study to estimate the failure rate of the main computer system of the launcher of a shore to sea missile launcher is presented in this study. ...

1 “ Sino - Japanese relations and Ballistic Missile Defence ”

Since December 1998, the Japanese government has formally committed itself to undertake cooperative technological research with the US into Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD). Japanese government policy-makers stress that the BMD project remains at present purely at the research stage, and that separate government decisions will be necessary before any progression towards the stages of development...

“ Decision Support Tool for Anti - Ship Missile Defence Operations

Naval combat platforms will increasingly operate in littoral environments where they will be exposed to a variety of anti-ship threats. To defend against these threats, a warship will use different means, including hard-kill weapons and soft-kill measures. Efficient allocation and coordination of these combat resources is a complex decision-making problem, where a huge amount of imperfect data ...

Stress proteins, self defence, and the myocardium.

Using Malware Self-Defence Mechanism to Harden Defence and Remediation Tools

Malware are becoming a major problem to every individual and organization in the cyber world. They are advancing in sophistication in many ways. Besides their advanced abilities to penetrate and stay evasive against detection and remediation, they have strong resilience mechanisms that are defying all attempts to eradicate them. Malware are also attacking defence of the systems and making them ...