VMEbus Systems / August 2005 MIL-STD-1553 is a serial, time-division multiplex data bus that has been used as the primary command and control data interconnect in military aircraft for the past three decades. MIL-STD1553’s robust performance, high level of interoperability, large installed base, and well established infrastructure of vendors has made it the network of choice for military avioni...

The paper deals with important topic of nowadays using FPGA in military applications. The FPGA are used in the defence industry instead of ASIC circuits for the same reason as in the civilian sector currently. The main advantages of the FPGA are presented in the paper. Base on these advantages we can define several military applications of the FPGA. The implementations of these applications are...

BACKGROUND AND REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION FLIR Systems was established in 1978 and is an industry leader in the area of civilian and military infrared cameras and programs for image analysis (see Figure 1), with more than 30,000 systems delivered. The Swedish division of FLIR Systems is located in Danderyd just outside of Stockholm and exports products to nearly 60 countries. Examples of typical a...

Composite materials are often more practical in use for different military applications. These materials provide interesting results especially through their good strength properties, corrosion resistance and low specific weight. These materials have various structures. Any defect of these materials usually has a more complicated and other form than in metals and that is why methods and diagnos...

Although the bottom is not about to fall out of the military market, a tough period of belt tightening has begun. The severity of these adjustments will vary based on the size and relationship of businesses to the defense industry. Ultimately, the military procurement process must be reformed. First, by streamlining the rules. Second, by upgrading the caliber of the people involved in the proce...

Business ethicists should examine not only business practices but whether a particular type of business is even prima facie ethical. To illustrate how this might be done I here examine the contemporary U.S. defense industry. In the past the U.S. military has engaged in missions that arguably satisfied the just war self-defense rationale, thereby implying that its suppliers of equipment and serv...

The current maintenance system of the national defense industry shall be schemed to complete and establish an integrated logistics support management system of the military aircraft commercial maintenance in the future, so as to provide a main information link system that carry out the military maintenance businesses. The methods of maintenance data collect and work orders release base on Maint...