Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, the ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which the impossible was achieved. Stealth is a tale of two aerospace companies, Lockheed and Northrop, and their fierce competition - with each other and with themselves - to obtain what was estimated one of the largest procurement contracts in history. Westwick's book fully explores the individual and collective ingenuity and determination required to make these planes and in the process provides a fresh view of the period leading up to the end of the Soviet Union. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the art and science of physics and engineering, Westwick offers an engaging narrative, one that immerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that some thought might save the world, and which certainly changed it."--

Stealth aircraft --- History.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Low observable (LO) aircraft and cruise missiles give U.S. military forces the technical capability to attack ground targets with less risk of engaging enemy defenses. But full use requires an intelligence infrastructure that can support their special capabilities. This monograph suggests the need for dialogue among the intelligence and mission planning communities, the aircraft developers, and the aircraft operators addressing issues in nine areas: 1) threat data requirements to support LO platform development, testing and employment; 2) types of threat data currently available and additional types needed; 3) constraints on data security and access; 4) validation of threat models used in penetration analysis; 5) interface of unit-level intelligence support workstations with mission-planning systems; 6) route-planning that considers mobile threats, airborne interceptors, and anti- aircraft artillery; 7) operational alternatives to enhance LO penetration capabilities; 8) automated procedures for route planning; 9) route-planning capabilities onboard LO aircraft.

Cruise missiles --- Stealth aircraft. --- Navigation (Aeronautics) --- Guidance systems.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Environmental planning --- urban planning --- community development --- urban renewal --- Džokić, Ana --- Neelen, Marc --- STEALTH.unlimited

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Airplanes, Military --- Stealth aircraft. --- Aircraft, Stealth --- Invisible military airplanes --- Low-observables military airplanes --- Low radar signature military airplanes --- Low signatures military airplanes --- Military airplanes, Undetectable --- Undetectable military airplanes --- Jet planes, Military --- Stealth technology --- Aeroplanes, Military --- Military airplanes --- War planes --- Warplanes --- Aeronautics, Military --- Government aircraft --- Air warfare --- Combat survivability. --- United States. --- AF (Air force) --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF (Air force) --- Safety measures.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp." But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to high-level positions and pursued billionaire-friendly policies, such as cutting corporate income taxes. Why the change from his fiery campaign rhetoric and promises to the working class? This should not be surprising, argue Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, and Matthew J. Lacombe: As the gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us has widened, the few who hold one billion dollars or more in net worth have begun to play a more and more active part in politics-with serious consequences for democracy in the United States. Page, Seawright, and Lacombe argue that while political contributions offer a window onto billionaires' influence, especially on economic policy, they do not present a full picture of policy preferences and political actions. That is because on some of the most important issues, including taxation, immigration, and Social Security, billionaires have chosen to engage in "stealth politics." They try hard to influence public policy, making large contributions to political parties and policy-focused causes, leading policy-advocacy organizations, holding political fundraisers, and bundling others' contributions-all while rarely talking about public policy to the media. This means that their influence is not only unequal but also largely unaccountable to and unchallengeable by the American people. Stealth politics makes it difficult for ordinary citizens to know what billionaires are doing or mobilize against it. The book closes with remedies citizens can pursue if they wish to make wealthy Americans more politically accountable, such as public financing of political campaigns and easier voting procedures, and notes the broader types of reforms, such as a more progressive income tax system, that would be needed to increase political equality and reinvigorate majoritarian democracy in the United States.

Billionaires --- Rich people --- Wealth --- Political activity --- Political aspects --- United States --- Politics and government --- American politics. --- billionaires. --- democracy. --- inequality. --- political science. --- stealth politics.