Military technology

Both economic decline and military technology feature in Correlli Barnett s four-volume account of the collapse ofBritish power between the First World War and the Suez crisis of 1956. Barnett used a concept of total strategy which encompassed all factors that he believed to be relevant to a nation s ability to preserve or extend its power education, literature, religion and national myths, for example, as well as armed forces and economic and technological resources. His work may... 

Since -> TNT is pourable at 80 °C (176°F), it is highly important in military technology. Since a considerable contraction takes place when the liquid explosive solidifies, good care must be taken during casting to ensure free access to all parts of the cast which have not yet solidified, in order to ensure proper replenishment of liquid material. Formerly, this was done by simple manual poking, but many automatic devices have been developed which do not involve any manual labor and which yield cavity-free casts. 

The Purex process is the only one with commercial-scale operating history. This military technology has been modified to treat domestic spent nuclear fuel. The focus of international commercial efforts to reprocess domestic spent fuel is to recover uranium and plutonium in the spent fuel. 

As indicated in the introduction to this chapter, one of the major advances which affected the civil and military technology of lead azide occurred with the development of the dextrinated products. Today these continue to play the most significant role in civilian industry and are still used for some military applications. 

Civilian specialized teams that are prepared for working in chemically contaminated focal points are usually provided with different types of chemical detectors and monitoring kits, which are only capable to point to the presence or absence of the suspected chemical substance or a class of chemical. The most-used detectors are designed for detection of organophosphate pesticides, chlorine and cyanide, but the detectors against classical CW agents are usually not available to civilian chemists. Because, currently, the anti-terrorist activities have spiralled upwards, much of todays s military technology has been developed into commercially available equipment, however, the cost of detection equipment items... 

The defense of the United States, including the protection of citizens to the fullest possible extent against new and deadly weapons, is the greatest and most complex problem that this nation has ever faced. It is what Professor Morgenstern identifies as that enormously complex field of politico-military-technological life, where aims and means are so poorly described and the unexpected turns of events continuously add new facets to an already bewildering picture. ... 

See J. P. Robinson, The Australia Group a Description and Assessment, in H. G. Brauch et al. (eds), Controlling the Development and Spread of Military Technology. Lessons From the Past and Challenges for the Future (Amsterdam VU University Press, 1992), pp.157-76. 

New military technology for collective filtration is focusing on PTSA-systems (Pressure and Temperature Swing Adsorption). Basically these use two filters alternatively, one providing protection while the other one is being cleaned , i.e. the toxic compounds desorbed by a combined action of reduced pressure and temperature. Due to the nature of the adsorption processes, this is very difficult to achieve with activated carbon filters as changing temperature and pressure will reverse physical adsorption, but will have a negligible effect on chemisorption (see section 4). 

To date, there have been no comprehensive studies of these technical facilities or their influence upon the development of weapons. It seems, however, that their task was not so much scientific research and development, as weapon-specific testing and approval of equipment manufactured by the private- and state-owned arms industry. On the other hand, the private arms suppliers, such as Fried. Krupp, had not only scientific laboratories, but also ranges for testing weapons and munitions. Despite the importance of military technology, the scientific facilities of the army enjoyed no special encouragement. The army depended on the scientific and productive capabilities of private industry. ... 

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