In early aircraft, the amount of fuel aircraft could carry usually determined how long it stay in flight. Today, with being able to air refuel, time they are aloft is based more on human needs, one waste management. Voiding urine a single-seat ejection seat has been an issue for male pilots past, but increasing numbers female finding solution intensified. This paper reviews various methods that...

Introduction Push and pull factors in military consumption 2. Development 01 lIrnlf procuremenlllnd arms trade Procu rement expenditure Consequences for production Global arms exports: On the rise again? 3. Technological changes Dual-use technologies Future military technologies 4. Pressures to internaliollalizeversus natiollal orientation The pressure to internationalize International a rms pr...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of an increase on passengers demand in a shared airport between military and civil personnel. The paper investigates how this increase may influence the military operations of a high strategic airport. Using as a case study the Salvador International Airport, home to the aircraft fleet responsible for maritime patrol in Brazil, an airport demand...

We consider a military mission planning problem where a given fleet of aircraft should attack a number of ground targets. At each attack, two aircraft need to be synchronized in both space and time. Further, there are multiple attack options against each targets, with different target effects. The objective is to maximize the outcome of the entire attack, while also minimizing the mission times...

The impact of Norwalk-like virus (NLV) infection on military forces is evaluated in this report. NLVs were a major cause of both outbreaks and sporadic disease among crowded US ground troops in the 1991 war with Iraq. NLVs also have been found to be a cause of acute gastroenteritis in other ground and shipboard deployments. Four large outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis were investigated aboard ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine possible persisting peripheral neuropathy in a group who undertook fuel tank repairs on F-111 aircraft, relative to two contemporaneous comparison groups. METHODS Vibration perception threshold (VPT) was tested using biothesiometry in 614 exposed personnel, compared with two unexposed groups (513 technical trades and 403 nontrades). Regression modeling wa...

This paper describes a method for determining a semi-empirical, equivalent simple-source model that accounts for the sound radiation in the vicinity of a high-performance military aircraft. The characteristics of the equivalent source are guided by previously reported observations of jet noise, namely that the strengths of the partially correlated sources are distributed asymmetrically. The par...