Learning with an Ally: The U.S. Army and the Bundeswehr in the Cold War

Abstract

This essay considers four critical areas of German-American defense cooperation during the Cold War: personal and material American aid for West German rearmament and its impact on the character of the German army, reorganization of German and American combat divisions in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the ultimately failed joint venture in tank design in the 1960s and the lack of cooperation in developing infantry fighting vehicles, and the impact of German tactical and operational concepts on post-Vietnam War U.S. Army doctrine. The essay will argue that in critical aspects, U.S. Army leaders adopted German modes of operation.

Methodology for selecting objects for reverse engineering at oil and gas industry enterprises

“…To stimulate the work on the development of reverse engineering at the state level, the RF Government Resolution No. 209 dated February 18, 2022 "On granting grants in the form of subsidies from the federal budget for the implementation of projects to create and (or) develop engineering development centers on the basis of educational organizations of higher education and scientific organizations implementing projects related to the development of components" was adopted [7]. Within the framework of this resolution the requirements for the development of critical components are presented.…”

“…Reverse engineering is a process of research of a finished device (mechanism), the purpose of which may be to recreate a copy of the object, its modernization and/or restoration of technical and technological documentation for the copied product. Reverse engineering is used to produce various parts, products, devices, which, in turn, can be applied to restore the performance of obsolete equipment and in the design of a new one on the basis of the existing one [1,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”