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More so than with previously established disciplines receiving military funding, the culture of computer science was permeated with a Cold War military perspective. Indirectly, the ideas of computer science also had a profound effect on psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience through the mind-computer analogy. [23]
Cold War military equipment by country (25 C) R. Radar equipment of the Cold War (8 P, 1 F) S. Cold War ships (23 C, 4 P) T. Telecommunications equipment of the Cold ...
British Centurion Mk 3, a first generation main battle tank at Eastbourne Redoubt. Medium tanks gradually evolved into the new concept of the main battle tank.This transition happened gradually in the 1950s, as it was realized that medium tanks could carry guns (such as the US 90 mm gun, Soviet 100mm D-10 tank gun, and especially the British L7 105 mm gun) that could penetrate any practical ...
Centurion [40] – main British early Cold War tank. Conqueror [41] – used from mid 50s to mid 60s to give long range anti-tank support to Centurions. Built to counter IS-3. Chieftain [42] – main British tank of Cold War and mid Cold War. Challenger 1 [43] – Main British tank late Cold War or 1980s.
Cold War military equipment of the United States Air Force (1 C, 2 P) Cold War armored fighting vehicles of the United States (1 C, 19 P) G. Cold War guided missiles ...
The tank was designed to give the US military an edge over the Soviet Union and, in the event of a land war, help blunt an armored assault with its heavy armor and powerful gun.
The Burroughs 416L SAGE component (ESD Project 416L, [65] Semi Automatic Ground Environment System) [49] was the Cold War network connecting IBM supplied computer system at the various DC and that created the display and control environment for operation of the separate radars [65] and to provide outbound command guidance for ground-controlled ...
While Cold War military contracts helped create the U.S. tech industry, many of today’s techies consider the defense sector anathema—workers at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have staged ...