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Journal articles on the topic "IX Tactical Air Command"

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Sherwood, John, and Craig C. Hannah. "Striving for Air Superiority: The Tactical Air Command in Vietnam." Journal of Military History 66, no. 3 (July 2002): 920. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3093437.

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Adams, Jimmie V. "R&M 2000 The Tactical Air Command Approach." IEEE Transactions on Reliability R-36, no. 3 (August 1987): 297–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tr.1987.5222383.

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Golliday, C. "Data Link Communications in Tactical Air Command and Control Systems." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 3, no. 5 (September 1985): 779–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jsac.1985.1146251.

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Polzella, Donald J., and David C. Hubbard. "Utility and Utilization of Aircrew Training Device Advanced Instructional Features." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 30, no. 2 (September 1986): 139–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193128603000208.

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The utility and utilization of the Advanced Instructional Features (AIFs) capabilities of USAF Aircrew Training Devices (ATDs) was explored by means of a survey of 534 Simulator Instructors from Air Training Command, Military Airlift Command, Strategic Air Command, and Tactical Air Command training sites. The primary purpose of the survey was to provide a database that could be used in defining the requirements for ATD procurements and in developing future ATD training programs. In general, the features that were rated highest in utility and utilization were those used for training management, variation of task difficulty/fidelity, and monitoring student performance. The level of AIF use was affected somewhat by hardware and/or software deficiencies; however, the presumed training value of an AIF was the most important determiner of its use.

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Lee, Do hyeon, Chang-Joo Kim, Man Jung Heo, Joo Wan Hwang, Hee Gyeong Lyu, and Jun Yeop Lee. "Development of Real-Time Maneuver Library Generation Technique for Implementing Tactical Maneuvers of Fixed-Wing Aircraft." International Journal of Aerospace Engineering 2020 (January 16, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7025374.

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This study develops the real-time maneuver library generation technique for performing aggressive maneuvers of fixed-wing aircraft. Firstly, the general maneuver libraries are defined, and then 7th-order polynomials are used to create the maneuver libraries. The attitude command attitude hold (ACAH) system, the rate command rate hold (RCRH) system, and the speed command speed hold (SCSH) system using the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control technique are designed to minimize the complexity of the flight control system (FCS) and to reduce the weight and volume of the payload. Moreover, the FCS is used for implementing tactical maneuvers. Finally, flight simulations are implemented for the longitudinal loop and Immelmann-turn maneuvers to check the usefulness of the proposed maneuver library generation technique. This study can affect the development of flight techniques for aircraft tactical maneuvers and the modification of air force operational manuals.

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Fisk, Arthur D., and F. Thomas Eggemeier. "Application of Automatic/Controlled Processing Theory to Training Tactical Command and Control Skills: 1. Background and Task Analytic Methodology." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 32, no. 18 (October 1988): 1227–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193128803201808.

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In this paper we briefly highlight relevant laboratory research that provided the theoretical and empirical underpinnings for the development of a task-analytic training methodology. The actual task-analytic methodology, developed to decompose tasks performed to support tactical command and control (C2), air-weapons controller missions, is briefly discussed. The present paper provides the necessary background for the actual application of the methodology. The details of the direct application are presented in a companion paper by Eggemeier, Fisk, Robbins, and Lawless (1988).

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Michalski, Daniel, and Radomyski Adam. "Counting the Uncountable." Safety & Defense 6, no. 2 (December 25, 2020): 100–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.37105/sd.91.

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The aim of the research was to create such a calculation model for the air defense efficiency that will enable to determine the degree of implementation of the task by anti-aircraft defense forces in combat conditions. The innovative approach to the efficiency of air defense presented in the article focuses on the methods and algorithms enabling the assessment of the feasibility of the air defense task. In its general form, it is based on the determination of the probable number of air assault assets intended for the implementation of an air task (destruction, incapacitation, disorganization of the cover object) and the possibility of air defense sets (means) to repel an air attack. The research was conducted with the use of qualitative methods – when determining the elements of protection or tactical and technical data. The results of the presented research can be implemented in the command process in air defense.

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Harmata, Władysław, and Marian Sobiech. "The public protection — light type protection solution." Bulletin of the Military University of Technology 66, no. 1 (March 31, 2017): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0009.9490.

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The paper presents the analysis of the present situation in the concern of the public protection against modern toxics by using the light type of shelters. The object of laboratory tests in the chemical agents’ environment is the complete light shelter (tent), called No-1 which is designed for the military purpose as the mobile command post at the brigade level. The point of concern is given to characteristics of the tent construction and its tactical-technical parameters. After the tests, there was discovered that the light type shelter provides the personnel protection against chemical or biological agents that could be find in the air as the BC agents or industrial toxics. The air inside the tent shelter is pressurized and decontaminated by the special NBC filters and the device is called UFW-900-2C. This filter set is equipped with adequate electronic controller and parts which provide an effective air cleaning and sufficient flow across the tent, and finally this composition works as the efficient, complete set. Keywords: construction, public protection, light type protection, NBC filtration

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Batyuk, V. I. "USA and Military Security of Europe: Evolution of Approaches." Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law 12, no. 3 (November 24, 2019): 207–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2019-12-3-207-220.

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Over the past few years, American military policy in Europe has changed qualitatively. Official Washington was forced to recognize the strengthening of Russian military power and the need to reconsider the role of the European command as a rear, designed to ensure the actions of the Central and African command. Of particular concern to the Pentagon is the Russian potential in areas such as air defense, long-range artillery, anti-tank ammunition and electronic warfare. The United States believes that over the past decade there has been a marked improvement in the quality of Russian troops, their combat readiness and equipment. Under these conditions, the American armed forces are losing their once undeniable and absolute superiority in Eastern Europe. The Americans had to once again increase the number of their armed forces on the European continent (though on the basis of rotation), increase allocations for “deterring Russia” and persistently demand from their European allies to increase defense budgets. OfficialWashington does not exclude the possibility of a large-scale military conflict with Russia in Europe. The new US Nuclear Policy Review of 2018 states that the Russian Federation is ready for the first use of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

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Mizerov, Ivan I. "Combat Actions of the 1st and 3rd Air Armies in the First Rzhev-Sychev Operation: Losses and Their Replacement." RUDN Journal of Russian History 20, no. 1 (December 15, 2021): 145–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2021-20-1-145-159.

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The article discusses the combat work of the Red Army air force (the 1st and the 3rd air armies of the Western and Kalinin fronts, respectively) during the Rzhev-Sychev operation, focusing on the role of field aircraft repair for the replacement of losses suffered in the battle, and for maintaining the overall combat capability of the air forces in the offensive zone. The author suggests considering the battle of Rzhev as one of the largest and longest aviation battles of the Great Patriotic War. The paper offers a comparative analysis of the number of forces involved in the Rzhev-Sychevsky operation with other large-scale air operations. Drawing on hitherto unstudied sources from the collections of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and on statistical data, the author explains the tactical application of aviation in the Central part of the Soviet-German front in the summer and autumn of 1942, as well as the patterns and main causes of losses during the military operation. The author emphasizes the critical importance of field repair for an accelerated recovery of air force strike capabilities; this gave the Soviet units significant advantages over the German Luftwaffe in the region. As the paper shows, the command of the 1st and 3rd air armies were fully aware of the importance of field repair and gave it thoughtful consideration; already during the intense fighting, measures were taken to share the gained experience with other units.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "IX Tactical Air Command"

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Johnson, Phillip M. "Casting Off the Shadow: Tactical Air Command from Air Force Independence to the Vietnam War." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398949297.

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Powell, Matthew Lee. "Army co-operation command and tactical air power development in Britain, 1940-1943 : the role of army co-operation command in army air support." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5131/.

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This thesis examines the impact of the developments made during the First World War and the inter-war period in tactical air support. Further to this, it will analyse how these developments led to the creation of Army Co-operation Command and affected the role it played developing army air support in Britain. Army Co-operation Command has been neglected in the literature on the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and this thesis addresses this neglect by adding to the extant knowledge on the development of tactical air support and fills a larger gap that exists in the literature on Royal Air Force Commands. Army Co-operation Command was created at the behest of the army in the wake of the Battle of France. A key area of development was the communications system to enable troops to request air support in the field. The Command was also involved in developing the Air Observation Post Squadron. Air Observation Post aircraft were used to direct the fire of artillery batteries from the air. In 1943, an operational tactical air force replaced Army Co-operation Command. This study highlights inter-service difficulties over the provision of air support.

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Ziemke, Caroline Frieda. "In the shadow of the giant : USAF Tactical Air Command in the era of strategic bombing, 1945-1955 /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487671108304474.

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Sweeney, Todd Franklin. "A comparison of the Joint Maritime Command Information System (JMCIS) capabilities with the U.S. Marine Corps (U.S.M.C.) Advanced Tactical Air Command Center (ATACC) data link requirements." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43032.

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Modern computing advances allow the aerospace controls engineer the ability to design, test, and implement automatic control systems for air vehicles with breath taking speed and accuracy. This work examines the automation of the hardware-in-the-loop testing and implementation of autonomous controllers for Unmanned Air Vehicles. Extraordinary interest is generated in this subject considering automation results in hardware-in-the-loop testing within days of completing a controller design. The entire automation process is presented, from design of the controller to implementation on a particular control platform to hardware-in-the-loop testing of the controller. This accomplishes control design and implementation in a matter of months compared to a few years or more before automation.

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Sweeney, Todd Franklin. "A comparison of the Joint Maritime Command Information System (JMCIS) capabilities with the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Advanced Tactical Air Command Center (ATACC) data link requirements /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1994. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA286025.

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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1994.
Thesis advisor(s): Carl R. Jones, W.G. Kemple. "September 1994." Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

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Books on the topic "IX Tactical Air Command"

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Don, Spering, ed. Tactical Air Command. [London]: Arms & Armour Press, 1986.

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Corps, United States Marine. Marine Tactical Air Command Center handbook. Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Marine Corps, 2008.

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Waag, Wayne L. Performance measurement requirements for tactical aircrew training. Brooks Air Force Base, Tex: Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, 1987.

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United States. Army Air Forces. Tactical Air Command, 14th. Air-ground teamwork on the Western Front: The role of the XIX Tactical Air Command during August 1944. Washington, D.C: Center for Air Force History, 1992.

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Day after day: New Zealanders in Fighter Command. Auckland, N.Z: HarperCollins, 2011.

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Shwedo, Bradford J. XIX Tactical Air Command and ULTRA: Patton's force enhancers in the 1944 campaign in France. Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala: Air University Press, 2001.

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The Fighter Command war diaries: The operational history of Fighter Command, Second Tactical Air Force, 100 Group and Air Defence of Great Britain, 1939-45. Walton-on-Thames, England: Air Research Publications, 1997.

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Foreman, John. The Fighter Command war diaries: The operational history of Fighter Command, Second Tactical Air Force, 100 Group and Air Defence of Great Britain, 1939-45. Walton-on-Thames, England: Air Research, 2002.

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1960-, Benson Jim, ed. TAC fighters. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1991.

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Reynolds, Richard T. What fighter pilot's mothers never told them about tactical command and control--and certainly should have. Cambridge, Mass: Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University, Center for Information Policy Research, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "IX Tactical Air Command"

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Powell, Matthew. "The Creation of Army Co-operation Command." In The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1940-1943, 83–117. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54417-9_3.

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Powell, Matthew. "The Beginning of the End of Army Co-operation Command, 1942." In The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1940-1943, 161–95. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54417-9_5.

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Powell, Matthew. "The Work of Army Co-operation CommandArmy Co-operation Command , 1941." In The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1940-1943, 119–60. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54417-9_4.

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Powell, Matthew. "The End of Army Co-operation CommandArmy Co-operation Command , 1943." In The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1940-1943, 197–226. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54417-9_6.

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Hall, David. "Lessons Not Learned: The Struggle between the Royal Air Force and Army for the Tactical Control of Aircraft, and the Post-mortem on the Defeat of the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940." In The Challenges of High Command, 113–25. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230505353_8.

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Young, Ken, and Warner R. Schilling. "Tactical Diversions." In Super Bomb, 108–32. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501745164.003.0007.

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This chapter shows how the struggle for influence over thermonuclear weapons moved onto new territory, where many of those who had opposed the decision to develop the Super expressed their continuing dissent through the politics of national security policy. The same figures emerged as critics of the air force doctrine of strategic bombardment, and of Strategic Air Command, in which its application was vested. In pointing up the prospects for employing nuclear weapons more effectively in the land battle, the dissenters attracted some support from army officers, while their arguments were anathema to air force generals. As Oppenheimer and another member of his General Advisory Committee took control of a study of tactical weaponry, the air force began to move against what was seen as dangerous, possibly subversive, amateurism. The offense was compounded by the promotion of an approach to air defense that was seen as another direct challenge to Strategic Air Command (SAC) through a disavowal of the deterrent force of strategic bombardment. The first steps were thus taken on a path that would lead to Oppenheimer's “trial” before the Atomic Energy Commission's Personnel Security Board.

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Wohl, Joseph G. "Force Management Decision Requirements for Air Force Tactical Command and Control." In Decision Making in Aviation, 63–84. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315095080-4.

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Conference papers on the topic "IX Tactical Air Command"

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Buchter, Richard. "2020: faster than real-time tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) from the dismount, and faster than real-time strategic ISR to the dismount." In Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR IX, edited by Tien Pham, Michael A. Kolodny, and Dietrich M. Wiegmann. SPIE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2309431.

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Glista, Andrew S., and John Nahvi. "A Broadband Wave Division Multiplexed (WDM) Local Area Network for Military Aircraft Using Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Components." In ASME 2003 International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipack2003-35062.

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The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has recognized the need to rapidly test and evaluate (T&E) Generation II commercial, fiber optic and photonic components for use in harsh, military aerospace environments. This paper describes the Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) Fiber-Optic Network (FON) demonstration program for the Navy EA-6B aircraft. The EA-6B Integrated Program Team is designing, developing and flight-testing a broadband fiber-optic Local Area Network (LAN) using ruggedized commercial WDM components and single mode cables and connectors. This WDM fiber optic backbone will be the first test demonstration of a network capable of simultaneously transferring both multi-protocol digital information and broadband radio frequency (RF) analog signals. Flight-testing of the digital portion of the system will take place on the EA-6B Tactical Electronic Attack aircraft with the support of NAVAIR at Patuxent River, MD. RF performance testing will take place at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Pt. Mugu California EA-6B Weapon System Support Laboratory. The first phase of this program [Flight Testing Optical Communication Using Open Standards (FOCUS) Phase I] demonstrated the survivability of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) fiber-optic single mode and multi-mode network hardware technology (cables, connectors, transmitters, receivers, encoders, decoders, and test equipment) on the EA-6B aircraft. The objective of the second phase of this program (FOCUS Phase II) is to design, develop, test and demonstrate, in the laboratory a (WDM ) network capable of simultaneously transmitting ultra wideband Radio Frequency (RF) analog signals as well as digital transmission protocols including Ethernet (10baseT), MIL-STD-1553, and ARINC-429 (et. al.) over a single fiber cable. The WDM FON system will then be installed and tested in the EA-6B aircraft. This paper will describe the backbone network design, which includes the network topology, test results on the proposed COTS components (lasers, couplers, add/drops, receivers etc.), and bandwidth allocation on the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) grid. Packaging of the COTS components to survive the extremely harsh military aircraft environment is also described.

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Reports on the topic "IX Tactical Air Command"

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McAllister, Branford J. Air-to-Air Continuation Training in the Tactical Air Command. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada157151.

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Guthrie, Troy. United States Air Force Training Extract. AFSC 1C4X1 Tactical Air Command and Control (ANG). Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada406867.

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Guthrie, Troy. United States Air Force Analysis Extract AFSC 1C4X1 Tactical Air Command and Control (Active Duty). Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada406918.

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Guthrie, Troy. United States Air Force Training Extract AFSC 1C4X1 Tactical Air Command & Control (Active (Duty). Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada406920.

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Guthrie, Troy. United States Air Force Analysis Extract AFSC 1C4X1 Tactical Air Command and Control (ANG/AFRC). Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada407094.

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Shwedo, Bradford J. XIX Tactical Air Command and ULTRA Patton's Force Enhancers in the 1944 Campaign in France. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada387833.

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Miller, James, Anthony Latino, Chandana Konidala, and Raymond Patenaude. Army R-22 refrigerant phase-out strategy. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/40039.

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R-22 (also known as HCFC-22) is one of the most widely used refrigerants in U.S. Army air-conditioning and refrigeration (AC&R) systems since the phase-out of R-12 refrigerant in 1995. The need to phase out R-22 is attributed to its global warming potential and high ozone-depleting capability. The U.S. Army has tens of thousands of aging AC&R systems that will remain dependent on R-22, or one of the recently developed substitutes for R-22, until they reach the end of their operational life. This project conducted a survey to understand the current R-22 usage and types of R-22 AC&R equipment that are in use across U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) installations. This study describes several methods to remove or retrofit R-22 from typical AC&R equipment and implementation strategies to meet the stated goal of eliminating R-22 from IMCOM installations. The scope of this project included the review of BUILDER SMS data for IMCOM installations, which included data on 13,000 pieces of comfort cooling equipment for 31 installations. The report also provides an analysis of several R-22 alternatives and their physical properties and compatibility. Mission critical tactical cooling that uses R-22 refrigerant was not within the scope of this project.

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