Air warfare

Jonathan W. Kaufman (5) Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent River, Maryland 20670... 

Analytical Chemiluminescence. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division NA WCWPNS, China Lake. Chemiluminescence history. http //www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/clmf/chemilume.html Chemiluminescence. 

Izzetogluet. al. conducted a study where air warfare management was simulated using Warship Commander (WC) task developed by Pacific... 

Chemists at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Weapons Division, China Lake, have reported many examples of polynitroarylamine synthesis via Bamberger rearrangements of arylnitramines. " " The nitration of 4-amino-2,5-dinitrotoluene (36) with a mixture of nitric acid and acetic anhydride in glacial acetic acid at room temperature yields the nitramine (37) which on treatment with neat sulfuric acid, provides 4-amino-2,3,5-trinitrotoluene (38) as the sole product. " Nitration of 3,4-dinitroaniline (39) with a solution of nitric acid in acetic anhydride yields A,3,4-trinitroaniline (40) acid-catalyzed rearrangement of the latter in neat sulfuric acid furnishes a 74 % yield of isomeric 2,3,4- (41) and 2,4,5- (42) trinitroanilines in a 4 6 ratio.Accordingly, a mixture of products can be expected when an unsymmetrical arylnitramine has two unsubstituted ortho positions available. 

The real potential of peroxydisulfuric acid for the synthesis of highly nitrated arylenes was brought to light by research conducted at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Some of the highly nitrated polynitroarylenes syn-... 

Inductive effects can have very pronounced effects on the reactivity of amides and similar substrates towards nitrolysis. Chemists at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) have reported an extreme case encountered during the synthesis of the energetic 1,5-diazocine known as HNFX (86). A key step in this synthesis involves a very difficult nitrolysis of the electron deficient N-nosyl (4-nitrobenzenesulfonyl) bonds of (85). Nitrolysis with strong mixed acid requires a temperature of 70 °C for 6 weeks to achieve a yield of 16 %. The same reaction with nitric acid-triflic acid requires a temperature of 55 °C for 40 hours to achieve a 65 % yield of HNFX. The same chemists reported a similar case of N-nosyl bond nitrolysis which needed a nitrating agent composed of nitric acid-triflic acid-antimony pentafluoride. ... 

Chemists at the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), China Lake, have conducted much research into the nitration of various substituted anilines as an indirect route to highly nitrated arylene hydrocarbons (Section 4.5). On numerous occasions these chemists found that diazophenols are formed as by-products and sometimes as the main or only product of a reaction. During these studies the diazophenols (65) and (78-81) ° were isolated and characterized. These diazophenols were screened for use as explosive components of both percussion and stab-sensitive primary explosive compositions. ... 

The work described in this chapter was performed while the first author was working at the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake. The authors would like to acknowledge the help of their colleagues Drs. K. Schadow and K. Yu, K. Wilson, R. Smith, and R. Stalnaker. The work was funded by the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Gabriel Roy, Scientific Officer. 

B) JX. Boyce, "New Weapons for Air Warfare", Little, Brown, Boston (1947) (353pp)... 

Britain was a major pioneer of air warfare. Radio equipment was first fitted to aircraft in September 1914, which facilitated co-operation with... 

Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945, Princeton University Press, 2002. 

Lee, B.Y.S., and Reed, R Jr. (1996) Degradable and Environment Responsive Explosives, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division (NAWCWPNS) TP-8282, April 1996, NAWC, China Lake, CA. 

Weapons for Air Warfare, Fire Control Equipment, Proximity Fuzes and Air Guided Missiles, Litde-Btown, Boston,Mass( 1947)... 

Weapons for Air Warfare, Fire Control Equipment, Proximity Fuzes and Air Guided Missiles, Little-Brown, Boston,Mass(1947) 2) T.Possony, "Strategic Air Power, the Pattern of Dynamic Security, Infantry Journal Press, Washington,DC( 1949) 3)... 

Sensitivities have been studied for a number of dinitramide salts. The impact sensitivity has been published for ADN by several different laboratories. Below are values reported from the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake (CL), and FOI. As can be seen, the impact sensitivity is somewhat greater than RDX. Neat ADN is classified as LID according to the UN regulations for Transport of Dangerous Goods, which is the same classification that applies for RDX. 

M. L. Chan, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA. 

Research and Technology Group Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division China Lake, CA 93555... 

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