enforcement agencies have trained small teams of officers for dangerous situations and outfitted them with military equipment. How many days does the S.W.A.T Team work? The only hours a SWAT team member works just SWAT is when they are activated and, in most places, for 16 hours a month of ongoing specialized training/practice. All full time police officers work 160 to 170 hours a police month What equipment do swat team use? While a wide variety of weapons are used by SWAT teams, the most…
new defensive and offensive equipment as a response to adversaries’ technology. The invention of the airplane illustrates this type of advance. Military forces responded to the airplane’s ability to conduct reconnaissance, bomb targets, attack air and ground targets, and perform sustainment operations by developing air defense technology. In World War I, the United States conducted air defense operations using three-inch anti-aircraft guns. The Nazi German military developed airplanes…
Human factors and ergonomics has become more significant in society over the last sixty years with the rise of technology. Human factors and ergonomics can be defined by the International Ergonomics Association as Ergonomics the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance…
Why and how Europe rise to the top? Why did Europe discovered the New World not Asia or Africa? Chinese had the same equipments than Europeans, some equipments were even better than the ones Europeans had. Even compass was invented and developed outside Europe. So why did Europe come out on top? One of the reasons might be because European kings wanted more power and they got more power by expanding their empires. European countries were geographically close and most of them were really small so…
In "Space Technology: A Critical Investment for Our Nation's Future," Bobby Braun creates a persuasive proposition that the US government should continue to invest in the NASA program. He is trying to convince his readers that if the US were to still invest in NASA, there could be a greater future with new and improved research. Tell me who wouldn’t want to know what other great discoveries there is still to discover and research from the great beyond meaning “space”? Being able to research new…
With Facebook executives focusing so much of their annual F8 developers conference on virtual reality, people are wondering how the technology will affect gaming and social networking. For enterprises trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors, trying to connect with customers, trying to better show off their products and even make potential customers feel like they're trying…
As how long the operator will be in force to maintain and operate the equipment. For NSF, they will be operation ready after the two year training in military, then a 10 year cycle with three high keys and seven low keys training. NSF only come back a year for short training, they more possible forgotten how to operate the equipment or the equipment being face out and they have to start to learn new equipment. With their In Camp Training per year, is only about 1 week or 2 weeks, how much…
Personal activity trackers are becoming a very popular item not only amongst the athletic and physically fit, but with many people interested in tracking their daily physical activity. Although wearable fitness trackers are not necessarily new technology, athletes have long made use of similar products, the new lightweight, wristband hybrid was made available to consumers for less than a decade. As the popularity of these products continues to grow, developers and producers continue to improve…
Introduction The changes in technology from WWI to WWII had a major impact on the war. Everything from education to material to new inventions played a role in the war as well as modern day inventions and items that we still use today granted with some upgrading. WWI we had the industrializing of steal and the formation of production lines with greatly helped the war effort of WWI but would see this even more in WWII. Germany advances in rockets During WWII Nazi-Germany was also making…
of total budget or 3 percent of total GDP every year since early 90s on military. The budget is extremely high for the US compared to it counterparts. Every year the military budget of the country accounts for approximately 40% of global arms spending, that is higher than the nine other biggest military budgets in the world combined. But is the spending on defence worth to the country? What will the US gain from high military spending? What good does it do to the US and global economy? I…