rand project air force (16 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. Light shelf wear.

Paperback. Etat : VG Plus. 1st. 885 pages. Well indexed - has a few technical illustrations in b/w. No markings, slightest of cover wear.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. Nine chapters on the subject from RAND. Fine used condition.

Etat : NEW in stiff wraps. graphs & charts. (illustrateur). First Edition. ISBN: 0833026194 First Edition. graphs & charts. NEW in stiff wraps. ISBN: 0833026194.

Paperback. Etat : UsedVeryGood. Paperback; light fading, light shelf wear to the cover; remainder mark to lower page edges; otherwise in very good condition with clean text and tight binding.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Fine used condition.

Paperback. Etat : UsedVeryGood. Softcover, with software; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in very good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Paperback. Etat : UsedVeryGood. Paperback; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; remainder mark to lower page edges; otherwise in very good condition with clean text and tight binding.

Trade paperback. Etat : Very good. Pete Soriano (Cover Design) (illustrateur). Presumed First Edition, First printing. xviii, 193, [1] pages. Footnotes. Acronyms. Appendix. Bibliography. Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth assumed a position at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in July 2011 after a 37-year career as at the RAND Corporation. Before joining RAND, he served in the Office of National Estimates at the CIA. Prior to that, he worked for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Institute for Defense Analyses. Dr. Lambeth has flown or flown in more than 40 different types of military aircraft with the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and with eight foreign air forces. He became the first U.S. citizen to fly the Soviet MiG-29 fighter and the first Westerner invited to fly a combat aircraft inside Soviet airspace since the end of WWII. He is the author of The Transformation of American Air Power, which won the Air Force Association's Gill Robb Wilson Award in 2001. He also wrote Mastering the Ultimate High Ground: Next Steps in the Military Uses of Space and many other works. Assesses the military space challenges facing the Air Force and the nation in light of the findings and recommendations of the Space Commission. The author reviews the Air Force's involvement in space since its creation as an independent service in 1947; examines the circumstances that occasioned the commission's creation and the conceptual and organizational roadblocks that have impeded a more rapid growth of U.S. military space capability; and enumerates the challenges facing the Air Force with respect to space.

Trade paperback. Etat : Very good. Barbara Angell Caslon (Cover Design) (illustrateur). Presumed First edition/first printing. xxviii, 193, [3] pages. Tables. Figures. References. Originally known as Project RAND, Project Air Force (PAF) was established in 1946 by General H. H. "Hap" Arnold as a way of retaining for the United States Air Force (USAF) the considerable benefits of civilian scientific thinking that had been demonstrated during World War II. Since its founding, PAF has remained the only Air Force federally funded research and development center (FFRDC)) concerned entirely with studies and analyses rather than systems engineering or scientific laboratories. The special FFRDC status facilitates stable USAF support over an extended period of years as well as in-the-family access by the research staff to relevant Air Force information and management personnel. Current United States Air Force (USAF) plans are to retain aircraft fleets for unprecedentedly long service lives, which may be as long as 80 years. The safety, aircraft availability, and cost implications of that fleet-retention policy are unknown. This study is part of Project AIR FORCE's Aging Aircraft Project to improve the Air Force's ability to foresee those implications and identify actions that will mitigate or avoid some of the more severe consequences, Using data from past RAND and industry reports and from various Air Force instructions and maintenance databases, and a regression analysis, it measures how the USAF aircraft fleets ages relate to maintenance and modification workloads and material consumption. It provides the foundation for future estimates of the effects of those activities on maintenance-resource requirements, aircraft availability, and annual operating cost. Maintenance workloads and material consumption generally exhibited late-life growth as aircraft aged, but the rate of that growth depended on both the aircraft's flyaway cost and the workload category. For example, long-term, late-life growth was found in all base- and depot-level maintenance workloads and material-consumption categories, except phased and/or isochronal inspections, per-flying-hour contractor logistics support, and depot modification workloads.

Trade paperback. Etat : Very good. light shelfwear. 195 p.

Couverture Illustrée broché. Etat : Bon. Format:15/23.

Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No DJ present. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xviii, 70 pages. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. References. Staple holes in front cover. Cover has some ear and soiling. Scarce surviving copy outside of institutions--such reports have proven to be quite ephemeral over time. The author was a senior member of the RAND staff with prior Federal service. Among the topics addresses are: Coalition Ground Forces, Coalition Air Force, Air Operations in the KTO, Attacking the Bridges, Campaign Planning, Battle Control System, Engagement Control System, Battle Damage Assessment, Aircraft Effectiveness, System Effectiveness, and Surface-to-Air Defenses. The air campaign against Iraqi ground forces in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations (KTO) during Operation Desert Storm represents a unique milestone in military history. This report describes the evolution of the campaign in the KTO and the planning and control of air operations, provides a qualitative assessment of the effectiveness of various systems employed against the Iraqi ground forces and discusses the factors that led to the success of the operation. This report was originally drawn from interviews and classified source documents. It has been modified to permit publication as an unclassified report in accordance with the DoD Classification Guidance for Post-Operation Desert Storm Information. The air campaign against the Iraqi army in the Kuwait Theater of Operations KTO began on the opening day of the war. Eighty B-52s bombed Republican Guard positions, almost 300 A-10 sorties were flown against troop positions along the border, and F-16s attacked ground force command and control positions. Additionally, over 250 other sorties were flown in the KTO on the first day of the war against strategic air offensive targets. The number of attack sorties rose to over 1000 a day in the ensuing weeks. The campaign against the Iraqi ground forces comprised several objectives of the larger air campaign. The objectives of the KTO campaign were to 1) Gain air supremacy in the KTO by suppressing air defenses 2) Isolate the Iraqi forces in Kuwait 3) Render the Iraqi army ineffective and 4) Support coalition ground forces in the execution of the ground campaign. The air campaign conducted by the coalition air forces in the Kuwaiti theater of operations grew and changed emphasis during the various phases of operations. In this report, the author describes the evolution of the campaign and the planning and control of air operations, assesses the effectiveness of various systems employed against the Iraqi ground forces, and discusses the factors that led to success. Among the impressive features of this war was the adaptability of the planning and control system: new operational concepts such as Scud hunting were developed and implemented within a week of conception. Other facets of airpower finally achieved potential: large-scale night air operations were successful for the first time, due to forward-looking imaging infrared sensors, effective munitions, and well-trained people. Wraps, with tape binding at spine.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Project Rand R-375-PR. Original printed wrappers. About FINE.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Large paperback in very good condition. Signed by author. R-482-PR. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 9"x6", 201pp. Original RAND corp document November 1954 R-264. Stiff wrappers, perfect bound. Very nice copy, scarce in this format.