Download or read book The B 1B Bomber and Options for Enhancements written by Jeffrey A. Merkley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book B 1B Bomber and Options for Enhancements written by Jeffrey A. Merkley and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The B-1B bomber has many special features that enhance its ability to penetrate Soviet air defenses. Even so, many reported deficiencies -- including shortcomings in the bomber¿s defensive and offensive avionics and a range that is shorter than anticipated -- have instilled doubts about its capability to perform the mission for which it was originally designed. This report raises three fundamental questions: (1) How serious are the deficiencies? (2) Should the U.S. change current plans and use the B-1B bomber as a standoff bomber carrying cruise missiles rather than as a penetrating bomber? (3) What enhancements should the Congress fund to improve the B-1B as either a penetrating bomber or as a standoff bomber? Illustrations.
Download or read book The B 1B Bomber and Options for Enhancements written by Jeffrey A. Merkley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Case Study of Risk Management in the USAF B 1B Bomber Program written by Susan J. Bodilly and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study was undertaken in conjunction with six others to develop a better understanding of the risks involved in weapon system development and whether government policies effectively aid in the management of those risks to reduce the probability or severity of negative outcomes. The purpose of the larger study of seven Air Force procurement programs is to provide information that might improve the decision environment in which weapon systems are procured and thus to increase the probability of positive outcomes. This case focuses on the procurement of the B-1B bomber and covers the procurement of the entire aircraft platform and its component systems. The B-1B, with a direct program acquisition cost of $20.5 billion in 1981 dollars, represents a mixed array of technical advances depending on the component part examined. The case study identifies risk-related decisions made early in the program prior to or at the start of full-scale development. The assessments of risk and its subsequent management are then tracked to show how the early risk management decisions affected the program. The term risk, as used throughout this paper, is the probability that, given that an activity is undertaken, an event will occur that has negative outcomes for those involved. This case study (1) identifies acquisition practices that shape and manage risk and (2) suggests possible improvements.
Download or read book B 1B Lancer Units in Combat written by Thomas Withington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the B-1B Lancer bomber was difficult to say the least. Originally conceived to fulfil a USAF requirement for an Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft, the original B-1A concept aircraft was accused of being a white elephant, capable of performing nothing which could not be achieved at less financial and human expense than an intercontinental ballistic missile. Cancelled by the Carter administration and finally commissioned by President Reagan as the modified B-1B, the Lancer began its duties as a nuclear-armed bomber in the mid-1980s. The end of the Cold War intervened and the jet was removed from its nuclear missions as a result of arms control legislation. However, the 1990s saw the metamorphosis of the Lancer into a potent conventional weapons carrier which has seen action in Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan. This richly-illustrated volume shows how the Lancer has proved its critics wrong in demonstrating its use as a highly flexible and hard-working bomber, able to undertake diverse missions ranging from CAS to the targeting of weapons-of-mass-destruction installations.
Download or read book B 1 Lancer written by Dennis R. Jenkins and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume profiles the Boeing North American B-1 Lancer, the last mass-produced strategic bomber in the US, sporting the most complex mechanical and electronic systems of any warplane ever developed. The book includes detailed explanations of technologically advanced flight and warfare avionics and descriptions of abilities and limitations evolving through changing missions and modifications.
Download or read book B 2 Bomber written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Subcommittee on Military Procurement and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long Range Conventional Missiles written by Edward R. Harshberger and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Note addresses near-term development issues for an emerging class of weapons--long-range conventional missiles (LRCMs), defined as missiles capable of attacking targets with conventional (nonnuclear) munitions at ranges in excess of 500 kilometers. The author identifies useful roles for the LRCM and determines that technologies beyond those of the Tomahawk are both necessary and available. He recommends that the Navy focus its near-term development on an upgraded Tomahawk Block IV, while the Air Force moves toward a new LRCM design. He finds that LRCMs are fiscally affordable, and arms control regimes are being developed that address their political costs. However, institutional concerns may be the major stumbling block to LRCM development. Data and support systems needed for operating LRCMs are not currently available and will require institutional changes in the services and the intelligence community. The author makes recommendations for future technology and support policy decisions.
Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
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Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint Resolution to Designate the Week of September 23 30 1988 as National American Indian Heritage Week written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Department of Defense appropriations for 1982 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Bombers written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Bombers written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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