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Pages:48 | PDF | Smith & Wesson (2006) | ISBN non | 3 MB
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Hand To Hand Fighting - US Army Forces
Pentagon Publishing | ISBN 1601700032 | July 2006 | PDF | 129 Pages | 3MB
The origin of hand to hand combat probably dates to the beginning of man. Throughout the centuries, soldiers and civilians have had to use their bodies to defend themselves against attack when weapons were not readily available. This manual provides a basic reference for training Special Forces soldiers in hand to hand fighting techniques.The particular hand to hand techniques and programs found in this manual will; develop an effective hand to hand fighter, is relatively easy to train and learn, utilizes effective techniques and provides a program which starts a basis for attaining expert capabilities
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A Dimly Burning Wick, Memoir from the Ruins of Hiroshima By Sadako Okuda
Publisher: Algora Publishing 2008 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 0875865607; 9780875865607 | PDF | 12 MB
As the United States debates launching another war in the Middle East, this passionate diary paired with a pondered discussion provides a reality check on how governments goad citizens into going to war and gives a forthright look at the hideous results for civilian casualties. Who bears the responsibility for decisions made in a democracy when our leaders or the media exaggerate the threat and downplay the harm our actions will cause?
The children of Hiroshima, Japan, were heading for school the morning of August 6 when the Enola Gay soared overhead and dropped the atomic bomb that exploded some 2,000 feet above the city, killing or destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians. In the aftermath, Sadako Okuda searched for eight days for her young niece and nephew in the smoking ruins.
In this agonizing diary she documents for the world the selfless compassion of the youngest victims. The children Okuda tried to save stunned her with their dignity and enduring will to help others and to hold their families together.
She, and the children, generously insist on avoiding bitterness and blame. But as responsible citizens, we still have to face ourselves in the mirror.
The first part of the book presents a series of immediate, sickening, and amazing impressions as the sufferers extend gestures of enormous humanity and generosity amid hell-like conditions. Most harrowing and heartbreaking of the victims were the children she encountered, helplessly roaming the streets in pain and dismay.
In the second part of the book, historians, medical experts and sociologists explore the background of the event and the social psychology that allowed Americans to accept this atrocity committed in their names.
The official story used to justify the use of the bomb fails to match up with the facts at the time; racial prejudices were fanned into hatred and biased reporting was used to whip up a desire for revenge. The techniques are still with us and they frustrate honest citizens of a democracy as they seek to make responsible decisions.
At Hiroshima, we know where were the Weapons of Mass Destruction and we know that civil rights and human rights were infringed, but we still don t know why proud citizens of a democracy allowed it.
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B-2 Systems Engineering Case Study by: John M. Griffin, James E. Kinnu, John M. Colombi
Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology 2007 | 2950 Hobson Way, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7765
118 Pages | ISBN no | PDF | 8 MB
The B-2 Systems Engineering Case Study describes the application of systems engineering during the concept exploration, design, and development of the USAF B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. The case examines and explores the systems engineering process as applied by the Air Force B-2 System Program Office, the prime contractor, Northrop, and the two major subcontractors, Boeing and Vought, from the program’s genesis in the late 1970s to the first flight of the first aircraft on 17 July 1989. The systems engineering process is traced from a vision of a few planners in 1978 to the production of 21 operational aircraft that are currently serving our nation. Numerous interviews were conducted with the principals who managed and directed the program and a story of the systems engineering process emerged.
The B-2 was conceived to profit from the advances in stealth technology that grew from a series of laboratory experiments and design studies during 1970 to 1976. The early work by both the government and industry during this timeframe resulted in feasible and practical stealth vehicles that exist throughout our military. The current operational fleets of fighters, bombers, UAVs, ships, and other stealth vehicles trace their heritage to the early technology maturation and engineering development programs. Stealth (or low observables, as it was called by the original practitioners) offered a new and revolutionary approach for penetrating the burgeoning growth of the Soviet defensive system of an integrated radar network. The fighter was the first type of weapon system to be studied for the benefits of stealth and the pay-off was assessed as substantial. The bomber was the next obvious candidate, and it too, showed great promise. Lockheed was in the lead for the technology application for fighters and was awarded the development contract for the F-117 stealth fighter. Northrop and Lockheed were competitors for the contract to develop the stealth bomber from late 1979; Northrop won the contract in November 1981. The first flight of the B-2 was 17 July 1989 with the first operational sortie of the aircraft occurring during the Balkan conflict in December 1995.
The Spirit is a long-range heavy bomber incorporating the key technologies of the time. First, it is a highly efficient flying-wing (tailless) aeronautical design. Secondly, the aircraft makes extensive use of composite materials. And third, it is designed for stealth. Figure 1 shows four views of the aircraft with each view showing the details of the control surfaces, doors, access panels, and other external features. Note the center of the aircraft from the bottom view, showing the large cut out of the structure to accommodate the weapons bay doors (4), engine access doors (4), and the main landing gear doors (2). The ability to achieve an efficient structural design in the presence of the large cutouts on the bottom skin of the vehicle is one of the significant achievements of the structures team.
The B-2 has significant range performance and payload capability. Table 1 shows the design weights and the range and payloads for the nuclear mission as well as the conventional missions. The bomber was primarily designed as a long-range strategic nuclear delivery system, but a significant conventional capability was designed in from the beginning. The table shows an abbreviated list of weapons currently certified for carriage. The list of weapons carriage capability continues to expand through ongoing B-2 modernization programs.
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Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden By David Irving, David John Cawdell Irving
Publisher: Focal Point Publications 1995 | 315 Pages | ISBN: 0958760217 | PDF | 1.5 MB
AT 10.10 P.M. ON THE NIGHT of February 13-14, 1945 the R.A.F. Master Bomber broadcast the cryptic order: 'Controller to Plate-Rack Force: Come in and bomb glow of red T.I.s as planned.' The ill-famed attack on Dresden had begun. The target city was among Germany's largest, but it alone had developed no single major war industry. The German authorities had made it a centre for the evacuation of wounded servicemen, and by February 1945 most schools, restaurants, and public buildings had been converted into military hospitals. In selecting Dresden for this purpose, the German government probably hoped that this, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, often compared with Florence for its graceful Baroque architectural style, would be spared the attentions of the allied bombers. By 1945, the legend was deeply entrenched in the population's mind that Dresden was a city that would never be bombed. It was not to be. In February 1945, with the Soviet armies making striking advances in their invasion of Silesia and East Prussia, and when the war's political and military directors were meeting at Yalta, Mr Winston Churchill was urgently in need of some display both of his offensive strength and of his willingness to assist the Russians in their drive westwards. Dresden, the 'virgin target' just seven miles behind the eastern Front, became the victim of Mr Churchill's desire for a spectacular blow. By a combination of delays and poor weather, the raid, the climax of the strategic air offensive against Germany, and the most crushing air-raid of the war, was not delivered until the day that Mr Churchill was departing from Yalta. The city was undefended -- it had no guns, and even the German night-fighter force was grounded by Bomber Command's brilliant tactics of deception and trickery. It had no proper air-raid shelters. On the night of the attack, Dresden was housing hundreds of thousands of refugees from Silesia, East Prussia, and from western Germany in addition to its own population of 630,000. Up to 100,000 people, perhaps more, were killed in two to three hours, burned alive, that night. Yet until the author's first book on it appeared in 1963 the raid on Dresden scarcely figured in any official indices of the war. A veil had been drawn across this tragedy. Why was there this official silence about the Dresden tragedy? Certainly little discredit reflected on the officers and men of the bomber forces; equally the two commanders, Sir Arthur Harris and General Carl Spaatz, were not acting out of hand. The directives and orders confronting them were painfully clear. Stung by foreign revulsion at this new St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the British Prime Minister - who had ordered it - penned an angry minute to his Chief of Staff, even before the war ended, rasping that, "The Destruction of Dresden remains a query against the conduct of Allied Bombing." It is from this remarkably forgetful minute that the subtitle of this documentary account is taken. For the first time, the full story, ommitting nothing, of the historical background to this cruel blow and of its unexpected political consequences, is told. First three, and now forty years' research in England, Germany, and the U.S.A., and the active cooperation of the military authorities in London, Washington, and Moscow, produce a detailed account of this tragedy.
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