Guide on Academic and Scientific Talks. Учебное пособие
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2.3.Electronic Warfare
2.Watch the video and answer the following questions
1.What is DEWS?
2.What features does it have?
3.How many systems does DEWS combine?
4.Does DEWS take response countermeasures?
5.Does DEWS constantly listen across an entire frequency band?
6.What is the reason of doing that?
7.Is the system already in production?
8.Does the system require the latest hardware?
9.What provides offensive and defensive support against modern air defense systems in the battlefield?
10.What space does DEWS work in?
3. Discuss the following questions
1.Which troops use DEWS?
2.What is “response countermeasures” in your opinion?
3.Do you know anything about Russian electronic warfare systems?
4.What analogues of DEWS do you know?
5.How does DEWS provide offensive and defensive support against modern air defense systems in the battlefield?
2.3.3.Electronic Warfare Technology
1.Match the words from column A to their opposites from column B
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action |
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involve |
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civil |
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emit |
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denial |
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military |
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follower |
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increasingly |
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resilience |
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complicated |
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organize |
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access |
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vulnerability |
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9. attack |
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exclude |
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10.threat |
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supporter |
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11.leader |
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loosening |
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12.enemy |
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protection |
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13.jamming |
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14.disrupt |
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defense |
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15.protection |
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2.Watch the video and answer the following questions
1.What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
2.What does the electromagnetic spectrum enable?
3.What does electronic warfare use the electromagnetic spectrum for?
4.What are the three capability areas from which military assets consist of?
5.Why do capability areas use different techniques?
6.What does the electronic support do?
7.What does the electronic attack (or jamming) do?
8.What does the electronic protection do?
9.Which system is a world leader in the electronic warfare?
10.Which role does BAE play?
3. Discuss the following questions
1.Which countries are world leaders in electronic warfare?
2.How can navy use electronic warfare?
3.How can air force use electronic warfare?
4.How can ground troops use electronic warfare?
5.How can electronic warfare be used in civil life?
2.3.4.Revision Exercises
1.Circle the correct word or phrase to complete each sentence
1.Secretary of Defence James Mattis is actively considering banning US military and civilian personal / personnel from bringing their personal / personnel cell phones into the Pentagon, the world's largest office building,
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according to three US defence officials familiar with an ongoing review of the issue.
2.The most common side effects / affects of military actions affect / effect civil citizens.
3.Defensive / Offensive air support is usually pre-planned.
4.A bullet / spear can weigh anywhere between the lightest at 15 grains and 750 grains, for the heaviest.
5.There are five types of kinetic / potential energy: radiant, thermal, sound, electrical and mechanical.
6.A military asset / national defence is a weapon or means of production of weapons or other defensive or offensive devices or capabilities.
7.Electronic warfare / Active Denial System ranges from passively providing situational awareness to detecting and actively disabling enemy transmissions or threats.
8.Those who organized the attacks exploited vulnerabilities /countermeasures in the nation's defences.
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Directed energy harnesses energy from across the electromagnetic spectrum |
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and focuses it into a useful being. |
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a. scatters |
b. tackles |
2.The system protects new and legacy aircraft with enhanced detection range, high fidelity identification, all aspect electronic attack, and countermeasures
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a. old |
b. being designed |
3.Electronic support intercepts, identifies and locates energy signals emitted from threats.
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a. recognizes |
b. blocks |
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Jamming directs energy toward threats to disrupt and neutralize their effect. |
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a. to break up |
b. to detect |
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I feel like someone's staring at me. |
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a. 's looking |
b. 's laughing |
6.The astronomers use pointers just like this one to point out constellations in the night sky.
a. celestial bodies |
b. configurations of stars |
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7.That’s super short time span is insufficient to affect a person but it's more than enough time to affect electronics.
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b. delay |
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As our world has evolved electronics have become pivotal tools. |
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a. sophisticated |
b. essential |
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Some of these systems can be kind of pricey. |
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a. costly |
b. dangerous |
10.We have done an insufficient job of educating the public about that technology.
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intercepted |
vulnerabilities |
weapons |
emits |
rubble |
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1.The vote exposed _______ in the election process.
2.The machine ______ a high-pitched sound when you press the button.
3.Terrorism is a grave and pervasive _____.
4.The electrical _____ is closed and thereby activates the switch.
5.If they know the cause of the problem, they might be able to _____ how to prevent it happening again.
6.These are purely defensive _____ , not designed for attack.
7.When you've aligned the notch on the gun with the _____, fire!
8.The bomb reduced the house to _____.
9.Law enforcement agents _____ a shipment of drugs from Central America.
10.We need to reassess our _____ as a nation.
4. What words do you think are missing? Write one word in each space
1.DEWS constantly listens across an entire frequency band to provide the aircrew with complete situational _____.
2.The system is already in production and supported by _____ employees and a modern facility.
3.DEWS provides offensive and defensive ______ against modern air defense systems.
4.Electromagnetic _____ is a collection of energy waves emitted from the Sun.
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5.There are three capability areas from which ______ assets consist.
6.Electronic support intercepts, identifies and locates energy signals emitted from _____.
7.Electronic protection protects personnel facilities and equipment from an
______.
8.The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I'm from the
______ and I'm here to help”.
9.We make directed energy systems useful for _____ defense.
10.Microwaves are defined as frequencies with _____ ranging all the way from
1meter down to 1 millimeter.
2.4.Aircraft Design and Production
2.4.1.How Autonomous Flying Taxis Could Change the Way You Travel
1.Match the terms and their definitions
1. airplane |
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be inaccurate or wrong |
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the central area or commercial center of a town or city |
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3. decade |
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a specific answer to or way of answering a problem |
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4. lidar |
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overfill |
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any of various winged crafts capable of flight |
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6. without a |
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with so many cars that are so close that they |
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7. downtown |
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an engine that produces energy by burning fuel within |
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8. solution |
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a device similar to radar but using pulsed laser light |
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instead of radio waves |
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9. under-utilised |
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a type of aircraft without wings, that has one or two sets |
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of large blades that go round very fast on top |
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10. congest |
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unnecessary because it is more than is needed |
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easy to see or understand; evident |
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12. helicopter |
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a device or structure for transporting persons or things |
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2. Watch the video answer the following questions
1.When did large commercial aircraft connect cities around the world?
2.Where does the speaker live?
3.What does the speaker call the landing spot?
4.What is the cost of the “special Uber”?
5.Can flying car change the way we travel?
6.What possibilities does electric flight unlock for vehicle configuration?
7.What is the expected reaction of people to such an invention?
8.What is the main idea of the speech?
9.When will the golden age of aviation happen?
10.What is the size of the Vahana battery?
3. Discuss the following questions
1.What opportunities can passengers of autonomous air taxis have?
2.Does this idea contradict the idea of Elon Musk to construct tunnels underneath LA?
3.Do you consider autonomous flying taxis as a proper solution for traffic jams?
4.What pros and cons of the idea can you name?
5.Give your own vision of air transport perspectives.
2.4.2.Nasa Mars 2020: First Aircraft to Fly on Another Planet
1.Match the words from column A and column B to make a word combination
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view |
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cells |
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navigation |
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missions |
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15.human |
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2.Watch the video answer the following questions
1.What will ingenuity on Mars give humanity?
2.What material are the blades of rover made of?
3.How fast do the blades spin?
4.What components does the rover include?
5.Where, according to the news, is the rover actually travelling?
6.What is NASA doing to control the rover easily?
7.Why won’t flying of the rover be easy?
8.What size can the rover’s size be compared to?
9.How many times do the rover blades spin faster on Mars than on the Earth?
10.How can we possibly use rovers in the future?
3. Discuss the following questions
1.What do you know about Mars?
2.Why are scientists so interested in Mars?
3.Do you think it’s possible that one day, many people will live on Mars?
4.Considering all of the funds spent on each mission (estimated $1.3-$1.5 billion per mission according to Forbes and $450 million per launch
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according to NASA), is it worth all of the money spent? What impact do these missions have on our planet? What do we get out of it?
5. How will human society change if it expands to new planets?
2.4.3.The Brilliant Engineering of First Flight!
1.Match the words from column A to their opposites from column B
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lift |
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deny |
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thrust |
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landing |
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ingenuous |
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numerous |
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curved |
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borrow |
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narrow |
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conform |
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take-off |
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15. reduce |
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2. Watch the video and answer the following questions
1.When did the first successful flight take place?
2.Where did the Wright brothers acquire their knowledge in aerodynamics?
3.Why did the Wright brothers use opposite direction of rotation for the blades?
4.Did the Wright brothers have formal education?
5.What was crank made of?
6.Why was a top point near the leading edge?
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7.How was aircraft controlled?
8.How powerful was Wrights’ engine?
9.What difficulties did the brothers face?
10.How was thrust force produced?
3. Discuss the following questions
1.What do you know about the history of airplanes?
2.How have airplanes changed over the years?
3.What does ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ mean? Do you agree?
4.Do new inventions always create new problems?
5.What are the best and the most useful inventions of the mankind in the 20th and the 21st centuries?
2.4.4.Revision Exercises
1.Circle the correct word or phrase to complete each sentence
1.In straight-and-level flight lift / thrust counterbalances the airplane weight.
2.A force, or combination of forces, that produces or tends to produce a twisting or rotating motion of an airplane is torque / gravity.
3.Rotation about the lateral axis is called roll / pitch.
4.Rotation about the longitudinal axis is called roll / yaw.
5.Rotation about the vertical axis is called roll / yaw.
6.Modifications have been made to increase /reduce friction and generally improve flight characteristics.
7.A glider / helicopter is a motorless, heavier-than-air aircraft, launched by towing or by catapult.
8.A voltage regulator controls the rate of charge to the battery by stabilizing the electrical output / supply which is usually slightly higher than the battery voltage.
9.It is obvious / ingenuous that airplanes should display positive stability, or perhaps neutral stability, but never negative stability.
10.Directional control of the airplane is obtained through the use of the rudder / rover.
2.Look at these sentences from the video and choose the phrase that is the closest in meaning to the phrase in bold
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1.Now, I work in downtown San Jose, which is near the airport.
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Scientists are sending commands way-way-way in advance. |
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4.When you examine it closely, you will be amazed by the numerous ingenuous technologies.
a. modern |
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5.The Wright brothers borrowed the idea of lift generation from their own earlier experience on gliders.
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8.The Wright brothers realized that the existing heavy automobile engines being used were the main villains.
a. supporters b. evildoers
9. To reduce weight, they even cast the crank case with aluminum, first at that
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10.Assume the Wright brothers designed the aircraft with the blade spinning in the same direction.
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1.Trade restrictions may have _____ environmental effects.
2.Public records indicate that building was foreclosed on a _____ago.
3.The points of intersection of X and Y correspond to the solutions of the system of_____.
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