Автор: Simon Dunstan, Ron Volstad
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1990
isbn: 0850455693
Количество страниц: 49
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Beginning in World War I, with the introduction of the steel helmet this book charts the development of protective equipment for soldiers and security forces. Initially body armour was seen as a military luxury that could be ill-afforded. However, the success of ‘flak suits’ as worn by some bomber crews during World War II convinced the armed forces of the need to develop protection for the ground soldier against small arms fire. The scientific development of the modern flak jacket is traced as are the field trials conducted in Korea and later Vietnam. Extensive illustrations and photographs accompnay the text.
Автор: Torenbeek Egbert
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons
Год издания: 2013
isbn: 978-1-118-56811-8
Количество страниц: 436
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Although the overall appearance of modern airliners has not changed a lot since the introduction of jetliners in the 1950s, their safety, efficiency and environmental friendliness have improved considerably. Main contributors to this have been gas turbine engine technology, advanced materials, computational aerodynamics, advanced structural analysis and on-board systems. Since aircraft design became a highly multidisciplinary activity, the development of multidisciplinary optimization (MDO) has become a popular new discipline. Despite this, the application of MDO during the conceptual design phase is not yet widespread. Advanced Aircraft Design: Conceptual Design, Analysis and Optimization of Subsonic Civil Airplanes presents a quasi-analytical optimization approach based on a concise set of sizing equations. Objectives are aerodynamic efficiency, mission fuel, empty weight and maximum takeoff weight. Independent design variables studied include design cruise altitude, wing area and span and thrust or power loading. Principal features of integrated concepts such as the blended wing and body and highly non-planar wings are also covered. The quasi-analytical approach enables designers to compare the results of high-fidelity MDO optimization with lower-fidelity methods which need far less computational effort. Another advantage to this approach is that it can provide answers to “what if” questions rapidly and with little computational cost.
Автор: David Nicolle, Angus McBride
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1995
isbn: 085045042X
Количество страниц: 51
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Most historians agree that the Carolingian Age, from the 8th to the 10th Century AD, represented one of the most important turning points in European history. It can be said with some certainty that early Carolingian military success was built on good leadership, adequate administration, and troops whose morale was almost consistently superb. It is also clear that the Carolingian army managed to adapt itself to face many and differing foes. This absorbing text by David Nicolle explores the organization and history of the Carolingian Empire during the age of one of history's most romanticised and heroic figures - Charlemagne.
Автор: Peter Hofschroer, Bryan Fosten
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1995
isbn: 0850455405
Количество страниц: 49
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Prussian light infantry branch was founded in the reign of Frederick the Great (1740-1786) and continued to develop from then onwards. It was the light troops of the Austrian army, the Croatian border soldiers, which so impressed Frederick in the Seven Years War that he considered it necessary to create an effective counter-force. Initially, there was a degree of reluctance amongst certain sections of the army towards this formation of light infantry. However, the Fusilier Battalions came to be regarded as elite formations, being well-trained, disciplined and carefully selected men led by young, fit and intelligent officers. This book described in detail the uniforms, organisation, training and weapons of this spectacular force.
Автор: Peter Hofschroer, Bryan Fosten
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1993
isbn: 085045543X
Количество страниц: 49
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
At the beginning of this period, the battalions of the Prussian Line usually fought in a linear formation three ranks deep, overwhelming the enemy with fire before a well-timed bayonet attack. By the end, the preferred formation was eight to 12 ranks deep. The responsibility for conducting the fire-fight was now given to the skirmish elements and the artillery. The formed battalions provided support for the fire line, and conducted the decisive bayonet charge. Whatever the change, the spirit and ability of the infantry remained consistently high throughout this bloody period.
Автор: Christopher Rothero
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1984
isbn: 0850455421
Количество страниц: 46
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
On 28 September 1066 William of Normandy landed near Hastings and prepared to meet the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold Godwinson. On 10 October 1066 the two armies met; and after six hours of fighting what became known as the Battle of Hastings, the Anglo-Saxon army was crushed and their king slain. The Normans set up castles to control the native population, and four-fifths of all England's land changed ownership. However, despite initial Norman success, it was fully two centuries before the Anglo-Norman kings managed to penetrate the wild interiors of Wales and Scotland, and many more centuries before the countries of Scotland, Wales and England were united under one crown.
Автор: Janusz Ledwoch
Издательство: Wydawnictwo Militaria
Год издания: 1998
isbn: 8372190054
Количество страниц: 40
Язык: другой
Формат: PDF (scan)
10,5 cm leFH 18/40 Fgst auf Geschutzwagen Lr.S(f); 10,5 cm leFH 18/40 Fgst auf Geschutzwagen 38H(f); 10,5 cm leFH 16 Fgst auf Geschutzwagen FCM36(f); 10,5 cm leFH 18/3 Fgst auf Geschutzwagen B2(f); 10,5 cm leFH 16 Fgst auf Geschutzwagen Mk Vi(e). 28 colour profiles, 35 b/w photos, line drawings. Polish text / English captions.
Автор: Terence Wise, Guido Rosignoli
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1996
isbn: 0850454107
Количество страниц: 48
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
In this third of three volumes examining the flags of the Napoleonic Wars [Men-at-Arms 77, 78 & 115] Terence Wise details colours, standards and guidons of Anhalt, Kleve-Burg, Brunswick, Denmark, Finland, Hanover, Hesse, the Netherlands, Mecklenburg, Nassau, Portugal, Reuss, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland & Westphalia in a text containing a plethora of illustrations including eight full page colour plates by Guido Rosignoli.
Автор: Peter Abbott, Nigel Thomas
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 2001
isbn: 0850454751
Количество страниц: 49
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The 1930s were a time of growing tension for the smaller states of Eastern Europe. Since the end of the First World War they had enjoyed an independence which most of them had not known for centuries, but this was now threatened by the growing power of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Instead of combining for self defence, they were bitterly divided. The Munich crisis of 1938, which served as the prelude to World War II, showed how little reliance could be placed on the Western democracies, whose power to intervene militarily in Eastern Europe was negligible. In effect this left the smaller East European states with little alternative but to become clients of either Germany or Russia.
Автор: James Shortt, Angus McBride
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 2005
isbn: 0850453968
Количество страниц: 46
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Since its birth at Kabrti in 1941, the Special Air Service has consistently captured the imagination of the military and public alike by the daring and unconventional nature of its operations. The nature of the tasks and the methods peculiar to the SAS have made it difficult to standardise items of equipment. Apart from issues common to the British Army as a whole, SAS personnel have need of, and access to, various specialised 'pieces of kit': often SAS innovations created to meet specific needs. James Shortt investigates the organisation, tactics, equipment and remarkable history of Britain’s elite fighting force.
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