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The Royal Navy's New-Generation Type 45 Destroyer: Acquisition Options and Implications

In 2001, RAND helped the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD) evaluate different acquisition strategies that it might use to acquire the new-generation Type 45 destroyer.

Jan 1, 2002
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The Stryker Brigade Combat Team: Rethinking Strategic Responsiveness and Assessing Deployment Options

Assesses how rapidly the Army's new medium-weight Stryker Brigade can be deployed by air or sealift from planned bases in the United States versus forward bases in key regions and explores how rapidly large U.S. forces need to deploy.

Jan 1, 2002
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Assessing the Benefits and Costs of a Science Submarine

Assessing the Benefits and Costs of a Science Submarine

Jan 1, 2001
Report

Why Submariners Should Talk to Fighter Pilots

Why Submariners Should Talk to Fighter Pilots

Dec 31, 1999
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The U.S. Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base: Force Structure, Cost, Schedule, and Technology Issues for CVN77

The U.S. Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base: Force Structure, Cost, Schedule, and Technology Issues for CVN77

Jan 1, 1998
Testimony

Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base

The purpose of this hearing was to receive testimony on the Department of the Navy's shipbuilding development and procurement programs as reflected in the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 1998 and the Future Years Defense Program.

Dec 31, 1996
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Strategic Futures: Evolving Missions for Traditional Strategic Delivery Vehicles

Addresses the post-Cold War use of traditional U.S. strategic nuclear forces (nuclear-armed long-range bombers, ICBMs, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles) from three perspectives: top-down, bottom-up, and policy.

Dec 31, 1994
Research Brief

Should Further U.S. Submarine Production Be Postponed?

Compares the practicality and cost of postponing submarine production restart still further with those of resuming production as soon as feasible.

Dec 31, 1993
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The U.S. Submarine Production Base: An Analysis of Cost, Schedule, and Risk for Selected Force Structures: Executive Summary

A summary of an analysis comparing two approaches to future submarine production: (1) allowing production to shut down as currently programmed submarines are finished, then restarting it when more are needed, and (2) continuing low-rate production.

Dec 31, 1993
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The U.S. Submarine Production Base: An Analysis of Cost, Schedule, and Risk for Selected Force Structures

Compares the practicality and cost of two approaches to future submarine production: allowing production to shut down as currently programmed submarines are finished, then restarting it when more are needed, or continuing low-rate production.

Dec 31, 1993
Report

U.S. and Canadian Cooperative Approaches to Arctic Security

Canada and the United States are paying more attention to underwater detection capabilities. In an era of extreme budget pressures, the two countries should examine options for working together to monitor subsurface activities.

Dec 31, 1989
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Sources of radioactivity in the ocean environment: from low-level waste to nuclear-powered submarines

This paper discusses both natural and man-made radioactivity in the marine environment. Radioactivity occurs naturally in both the sea water and in the ocean sediment. Radioactivity in the sea water is fairly uniform geographically and is dominated...

Dec 31, 1985
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Soviet navy data base: 1982-1983

Among the factors which influence naval power are Navy composition (the types of ships in the navy); fleet assignments (the basic location of ships); fleet organization (the groupings of ships used); ship availability (the number of ships in various ...

Dec 31, 1982
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Life Aboard a Soviet Destroyer and a Soviet Submarine

Presents two fictionalized accounts of life at sea — one aboard a Soviet destroyer, the other aboard a Soviet submarine — based on articles that appeared in the open literature on the Soviet navy between 1973 and 1982.

Dec 31, 1982
Report

Sea-Ice Conditions in the Norwegian, Barents, and White Seas

An investigation of the possible effects of climatic change on the military posture of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Jul 31, 1976
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A Methodology for Comparing the Range Performance of Chemically Fueled Submersibles

Presents a simple, general method for readily comparing the performances of chemically powered submersibles.

Dec 31, 1975
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The Economics of Naval Ship Automation: An Analysis of Proposed Automation of the DE-1052

Proposed automation of the DE-1052 class destroyer escort is analyzed as an investment problem.

Dec 31, 1974
Report

Fatal Submarine Accidents: A Bibliography, 1900-1965

This first complete bibliography of submarine accidents resulting in one or more deaths is a spinoff from a larger study of public reactions to disasters.

Dec 31, 1965
Report

Ship Weight Data Conversion from Maritime to Naval Classification.

Presentation of a method for converting ship construction weights from the Maritime Administration system to the Navy BuShips systems. The conversion system is devised to assemble and present, on a common basis, data from these different weight estim...

Dec 31, 1964
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Cost Sensitivity Analysis

A discussion of the techniques of cost sensitivity analysis, illustrated by a hypothetical investigation of a system designed to protect the United States against submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Dec 31, 1964

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