SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The evolution of aviation technology has gone a long way through the decades. An in-depth study about aviation's transformation from analog to digital systems is set to begin as Xlibris announces the release of Threat Warning for Tactical Aircraft, the compelling new book featuring the research of authors Robert L. Simmen and Bjorn M. Fjallstam.
This text is a much-needed review of the "Turning Point" in the evolution of airborne threat warning systems from analog to digital beginning in the early 1970s and the combat conditions of the Vietnam War that brought about the evolution. The military operational requirements for re-programmability of threat characteristics is described and detailed. Illustrations of several types of radar warning receiver (RWR) processors are shown. Readers will also discover in-depth reviews of basic software structures and functions, as well as discussions of top-level flow charts, diagrams of critical algorithms and circuits of the original systems. The 'electro-political' environment is treated also in the retelling of the origins of the developmental impetus, as well as the technical approach and resource applications that resulted in the new family of warning system processors.
Richly-layered and detailed, Threat Warning for Tactical Aircraft is easily the most informative study of the history of the evolution from analog to digital systems of radar warning for military aircraft. To order a copy of this captivating book, be sure to visit your local bookstore or shop online at Xlibris.com today!
About the Authors
For more than sixty years Robert Simmen has been actively involved in radio frequency technology programs in the military communications and electronic warfare communities, both in uniform and as engineer and executive for several industrial firms. As author and lecturer he has documented the history of the transition from analog to digital threat warning system development and deployment.
As Chief Research Scientist at Dalmo Victor Bell Aerospace in the 1970s, Bjorn Fjallstam was the principal architect of what was to become one of the most important new developments in the evolution of threat warning systems, the software reprogrammable real-time digital signal processor.
Threat Warning for Tactical Aircraft * by Robert L. Simmen with
Bjorn M. Fjallstam
A Technical History of the Evolution from Analog to Digital Systems
Publication Date: December 19, 2006
Trade Paperback; $20.99; 130 pages; 978-1-4257-3671-2
Cloth Hardback; $30.99; 130 pages; 978-1-4257-3672-9
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