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Название: The Complete Photo Manual (Revised Edition): Skills + Tips for Making Great Pictures
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Weldon Owen
ISBN: 1681882701
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 273
Размер: 53,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Today’s cameras are more powerful and easy to use than ever—and thanks to The Complete Photo Manual Revised Edition, picture-perfect photos are just a shutter’s click away! This revised edition includes a fresh basics section to help true novices master their machine, with fantastic info on exposure, focus, aperture, shutter speed, flash, and more. Plus, it contains updated software advice and tons of new, on-trend tutorials for the aspiring photographer!

Название: Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, And Policy
Автор(ы): Bergen Peter
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2014
Страниц: 494
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2,23 MB


Drones are the iconic military technology of many of today's most pressing conflicts. Drones have captured the public imagination, partly because they project lethal force in a manner that challenges accepted norms and moral understandings. Drone Wars presents a series of essays by legal scholars, journalists, government officials, military analysts, social scientists, and foreign policy experts. It addresses drones' impact on the ground, how their use adheres to and challenges the laws of war, their relationship to complex policy challenges, and the ways they help us understand the future of war. The book is a diverse and comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective on drones that covers important debates on targeted killing and civilian casualties, presents key data on drone deployment, and offers new ideas on their historical development, significance, and impact on law and policy.

Название: LZ Hot!: Flying South Africa’s Border War
Автор(ы): Lithgow Nick
Издательство: Helion and Company
Год: 2012
Страниц: 176
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 1,41 MB


After an early childhood in Pretoria, Nick reported for National Service duty with the SADF. This saw him deploying to the Border as an infantry soldier with a brief interlude to Pretoria for pilot assessment. Much to his surprise, Nick was called forward for pilot training and this saw him learning his craft on the Harvard and Impala. He soon graduated to rotary with the Alouette and shortly thereafter, in 1977, Nick became a Puma pilot. At the height of the South African Border War, Nick flew Puma helicopters across the 'Operational Area' conducting troop moves, casevacs, fighting patrols with special forces and more. In the Drakensburg mountain range Nick conducted daring cliff rescues, whilst at sea, he was instrumental in a number of difficult rescues. Nick now lives in Durban, South Africa, with business interests in Johannesburg. He continues to love anything to do with aviation.

Название: Russian Special Forces: Issues of Loyalty, Corruption and the Fight Against Terror
Автор(ы): Turbiville Graham H.
Издательство: Hurlburt Field: Joint Special Operations University
Год: 2005
Страниц: 27
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 441,66 КБ


Dr. Graham Turbiville offers the reader insight about the status and capabilities of Russia's special operations forces (SOF). At a time when the U.S. special operations planning community must take full advantage of the unique skills and regional expertise that foreign partners can provide to complement our fully committed forces, Turbiville's paper is especially helpful. Turbiville's analysis is based on open sources that suggest corruption, incompetence, and rogue elements may have rendered Russian SOF ineffective for tackling the difficult problems of countering terrorism and insurgency. U.S. counterterrorism strategy has benefited from the battlefield successes of combined special operations task forces that operate in overseas locations with great success. In countering various extremists who employ terrorism as their principal weapon, our partnerships with regional allies and friends have proven effective for both conventional and special operations forces. Indeed, even on the dark side, where the United States may employ the most secret of forces, it is often critical to have the support and participation of foreign partners. For these operations, issues of competency and trust are just as important as surprise and firepower when pulling together a combined special operations unit. As U.S. SOF planners consider future coalition campaigns, a key item on their checklist will need to be an assessment of the reliability of potential foreign SOF partners. Here, Dr. Turbiville's review of allegations concerning Russian SOF linkages to corruption, criminal enterprise, and even terrorism itself indicate deep problems lurking within the Spetsnaz and other Russian security units. The paper reminds planners that they will need to develop realistic expectations of performance and reliability when dealing with a number of other foreign SOF units as they pursue multinational operations.

Название: Ragged War: The Story of Unconventional and Counter-Revolutionary Warfare
Автор(ы): Leroy Thompson
Издательство: Arms and Armour Press
Год: 1994
Страниц: 232
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 32.31 MB


Guerrilla warfare may well be seen as a 20th century development, although its origins go back to the dawn of warfare. It is probable that insurgency & counter-terrorist actions by superpowers & lesser nations will become the most likely use of military power in the coming decades. This study is an historical examination of the development of counter-insurgency & counter-terrorist warfare. As well as an assessment of the tactics that have been effective, the author emphasizes the importance of intelligence in these operations, reviews the weaponry used, & analyzes the training of 3 elite special warfare units. Unusual & interesting action photos.

Название: The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth
Автор(ы): Anton Joachimsthaler
Издательство: Arms and Armour Press
Год: 1998
Страниц: 356
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 29.12 MB


Did Hitler die in the bunker? Despite thousands of pages of evidence made public by a German federal court that spent four years investigating the circumstances surrounding Hitler's death, the mystery of exactly what took place in the Fuehrer's final hours continues to intrigue and puzzle many. What was his actual mental and physical state at the time? Did he fear that Himmler, who had begun negotiations with the Allies, planned to turn him over to the enemy? Could a double have really existed, allowing Hitler to escape? Time is running out for one last attempt to assess the eyewitness evidence. This expert has interviewed most of the still-living witnesses who testified at the inquiry and has studied records from Russia that were unavailable in the 1950s. The result is a careful re-examination of the state of the bunker, the corpses found at the site, the evidence of gunshots and of suicide, the attempts to make identification difficult, and the all-important dental records.

Название: Martin Kitten
Автор(ы): Guttman J.
Издательство: Albatross Publications
Серия: Windsock Mini Datafile 08
Год: 1996
Страниц: 12
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 5,98 MB


Few 'firsts' in the world of aviation can be found without an earlier one turning up sometimes in a bizarre context. A case in point is the J V Martin K.III Kitten, a remarkable collection of innovative concepts combined in an aeroplane that was fundamentally unsound for its avowed purpose.

Название: Vickers Guns
Автор(ы): Woodman H.
Издательство: Albatross Publications
Серия: Windsock Mini Datafile 06
Год: 1996
Страниц: 11
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 8,25 MB


With 12 pages of text, 1:12 scale drawings ,showing all the various permutations, this modest booklet is a modellers' 'must have'. Harry Woodman provides the full history of the Vickers machine gun as fitted to many Allied fighters and two-seaters in WWI and provides 25 archive photos with four in full colour to support his narrative.Concise and fully illustrated it's a great guide to this iconic weapon.

Название: Morane Saulnier AI
Автор(ы): Bruce J.M.
Издательство: Albatross Publications
Серия: Windsock Mini Datafile 05
Год: 1996
Страниц: 15
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 4,23 MB


Racy high wing late war French monoplane fighter of striking design. This highly informative study comprises 16 pages packed with data, 23 rare archive photos and over four pages of scale drawings by Ian Stair with two colour photos of the restored Memorial Flight example plus two profiles on the rear covers showing the distinctive five colour French camouflage pattern.Complementing this are contemporary camouflage sketches and details of plaques affixed to the airframe. Unique and revealing exclusives for modellers!

Название: Lewis Guns
Автор(ы): Woodman H.
Издательство: Albatross Publications
Серия: Windsock Mini Datafile 03
Год: 1995
Страниц: 12
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3,36 MB


With 12 pages of text, and 1:12 scale drawings by author Harry Woodman showing the most common variations, this is the WWI modellers' ultimate resource for a truly historic and famous airborne weapon. Over 25 archive photos support the detailed narrative which has remained in our top seller list for many years and is now in its second printing.