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Название: Stealth
Автор: Doug Richardson
Издательство: Orion Books
Год: 1989
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 192
Размер: 129,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Traces the development of stealth technology, explains its design principles, and discusses radar-absorbing materials, control of heat and sound emissions, and the use of electronic warfare systems.

Название: Яковлев Як-6
Автор: Dale Volkov
Издательство: «Уголок неба»
Год: 2021
Формат: pdf в zip-архиве
Страниц: 43
Размер: 55,6 mb
Язык: Русский



Яковлев Як-6. Ясным ранним утром, а может быть и в полдень 19 августа 1942 года с оренбургского аэродрома поднялся маленький самолет, на который в то время возлагались большие надежды. В первые месяцы войны неожиданно активно в качестве ночных бомбардировщиков, транспортных и связных (что, впрочем, как раз естественно) стали применяться легкомоторные У-2, Р-5 и P-Z. Но недостаточные грузоподъемность, дальность, да и все другие показатели вызвали потребность в специализированном самолете. Решение о постройке такой машины в первую очередь в качестве ночного ближнего бомбардировщика (МББ) было принято Государственным комитетом обороны 26 апреля 1942 года. Работы были поручены ОКБ А.С. Яковлева. ...

Название: The Routledge History of Gender, War and the U.S. Military
Автор(ы): Vuic Kara Dixon (ed.)
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2018
Страниц: 381
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 4,33 MB


The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the US Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military. In twenty-one original essays, the contributors tackle themes including gendering the 'other', gender and war disability, gender and sexual violence, gender and American foreign relations, and veterans and soldiers in the public imagination, and lay out a chronological examination of gender and America's wars from the American Revolution to Iraq. This important collection is essential reading for all those interested in how the military has influenced America's views and experiences of gender.

Название: Intelligence and Imperial Defence: British Intelligence and the Defense of the Indian Empire, 1904-1924
Автор(ы): Popplewell Richard J.
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 1995
Страниц: 364
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 6,25 MB


This is the first book to appear on British intelligence operations based in both India and London, which defended the Indian Empire against subversion during the first two decades of the twentieth century. It is concerned with the threat to the British Raj posed by the Indian revolutionary movement, the resulting development of the imperial intelligence service and the role it played during the First World War.

Название: Drone Law and Policy: Global Development, Risks, Regulation and Insurances: An Innovation and Impact Agenda
Автор(ы): Tarr A.A., Tarr J., Thompson M., Ellis J. (Eds.)
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2021
Страниц: 483
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 18,88 MB


Drone Law and Policy describes the drone industry and its evolution, describing the benefits and risks of its exponential growth. It outlines the current and proposed regulatory framework in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, taking into consideration the current and evolving technological and insurance landscape.
This book makes recommendations as to additional regulatory and insurance initiatives which the authors believe are necessary to achieve an effective balance between the various competing interests. The 23 chapters are written by global specialists on crucial topics, such as terrorism and security, airport and aircraft safety, maritime deployment, cyber-risks, regulatory oversight, licensing, standards and insurance.
This book will provide authoritative reference and expert guidance for regulators and government agencies, legal practitioners, insurance companies and brokers globally, as well as for major organisations utilising drones in industrial applications.

Название: Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands
Автор(ы): Khan Sulmaan Wasif
Издательство: University of North Carolina Press
Год: 2015
Страниц: 216
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3,05 MB


In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal, traders carrying salt across the Himalayas, and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa. What Chinese policymakers confronted in Tibet, Khan argues, was not a third world but a fourth world problem: Beijing was dealing with peoples whose ways were defined by statelessness. As it sought to tighten control over the restive borderlands, Mao's China moved from a lighter hand to a harder, heavier imperial structure. That change triggered long-lasting shifts in Chinese foreign policy. Moving from capital cities to far-flung mountain villages, from top diplomats to nomads crossing disputed boundaries in search of pasture, this book shows Cold War China as it has never been seen before and reveals the deep influence of the Tibetan crisis on the political fabric of present-day China.

Название: Spies, Lies and the War on Terror
Автор(ы): Todd Paul, Bloch Jonathan
Издательство: Zed Books
Год: 2009
Страниц: 225
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,2 MB


This book traces the transformation of intelligence from a tool for law enforcement to a means of avoiding the law--both national and international. The "War on Terror" has seen intelligence agencies emerge as major political players. "Rendition," untrammelled surveillance, torture and detention without trial are becoming normal. The new culture of victimhood in the US and among partners in the "coalition of the willing" has crushed domestic liberties and formed a global network of extra-legal license. State and corporate interests are increasingly fused in the new business of privatizing fear. The authors argue that the bureaucracy and narrow political goals surrounding intelligence actually have the potential to increase the terrorist threat.

Название: Late Roman Infantryman vs Gothic Warrior: AD 376-82
Автор: Murray Dahm
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Combat 56
ISBN: 9781472845283
Год издания: 2021
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 81
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 22,7 MB

Ravaged by civil war and pressure from the Huns to the east, in late summer AD 376 the Gothic tribe of the Theruingi - up to 200,000 people under their leader Fritigern - gathered on the northern bank of the River Danube and asked the Eastern Roman emperor, Valens, for asylum within the empire.

Название: The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941-42: Japan's Quest for Oil
Автор: Marc Lohnstein
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Campaign 364
ISBN: 9781472843524
Год издания: 2021
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 97
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 23,8 MB

Imperial Japan's campaigns of conquest in late 1941/early 1942 were launched in order to achieve self-sufficiency for the Japanese people, chiefly in the precious commodity of oil. The Netherlands (or Dutch) East Indies formed one of Japan's primary targets, on account of its abundant rubber plantations and oilfields - the latter, in particular, was highly prized, given that the colony was the fourth-largest exporter of oil in the world. Japan itself lacked any form of domestic production.

Название: Leuctra 371 BC: The Destruction of Spartan Dominance
Автор: Murray Dahm
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Campaign 363
ISBN: 9781472843517
Год издания: 2021
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 97
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 32,8 MB

The battle of Leuctra, fought in early July in 371 BC was one of the most important battles ever to be fought in the ancient world. Not only did it see the destruction of the Spartan dominance of Greece, it also introduced several tactical innovations which are still studied and emulated to this day.