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"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.

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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.

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In deze masterproef wordt de houding van partijleden ten aanzien van alternatieve democratievormen bestudeerd. Hiervoor werd van data gebruikgemaakt die verzameld werden bij de Vlaamse politieke partijen Open Vld en N-VA. Het onderzoek spitst zich toe op twee alternatieve democratievormen, namelijk directe democratie en stealth democratie. Bij directe democratie krijgt de burger meer rechtstreekse inspraak in het beleid. Bij stealth democratie functioneert de overheid op een zo onzichtbare en efficiënt mogelijke wijze. De representatieve democratie staat onder druk en nieuwe democratievormen winnen aan terrein. Dit kan gevolgen hebben voor de partijleden. Partijleden vervullen namelijk een 'linkage function' binnen partijen. Ze zijn de schakel tussen de samenleving en de partijtop. In deze masterproef werd onderzocht of partijleden van Open Vld en N-VA negatiever staan tegenover alternatieve democratievormen om hun 'linking function' te beschermen. Uit het gevoerde onderzoek bleek dit niet het geval te zijn, integendeel. Daarnaast werd er onderzocht of de New Politics of Political Dissatisfaction theorie de houding van partijleden tegenover directe en stealth democratie kunnen verklaren. De New Politics theorie stelt dat een hoger opleidingsniveau en postmaterialistische waarden er voor zorgen dat burgers positiever staan tegenover directe democratie. De Political Dissatisfaction theorie stelt dat burgers die ontevreden zijn over en gefrustreerd zijn in de representatieve democratie positiever staan ten aanzien van directe en stealth democratie. In dit onderzoek werd de New Politics theorie niet bevestigd. De Political Dissatisfaction theorie werd gedeeltelijk bevestigd wat betreft directe democratie, omtrent stealth democratie werd geen bewijs gevonden voor de Political Dissatisfaction theorie.

Directe democratie. --- Linkage Function. --- New Politics. --- Partijleden. --- Political Dissatisfaction. --- S196-sociale-economie. --- Stealth democratie.

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Stealth aircraft --- Jet planes, Military --- Jet engines --- F-35 (Military aircraft) --- Fighter planes --- Design and construction.

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