Statistical Prediction of Impact Displacement Due to the Wind Effect on an Unguided Artillery Rocket during Powered Flight

Abstract

The merits of two new statistical wind displacement estimators are tested against a ballistic-meteorological estimator similar to that currently utilized for predicting the impact displacement due to the wind effect on an unguided artillery rocket (m50) during powered flight. Computations of the statistical estimators, based on simulated rocket trajectories using actual wind profiles, are presented for the 200, 400, and 800 mil trajectories. Reductions in impact dispersion ranging from 22 to 56% are afforded by these new estimators over the one currently used.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0743458

Entities

People

  • Abel J. Blanco
  • Larry E. Traylor

Organizations

  • Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artillery
  • Artillery Rockets
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundary Layer
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Science
  • Estimators
  • Information Science
  • Least Squares Method
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Measurement
  • Miss Distance
  • Optimal Estimators
  • Rocket Trajectories
  • Simulators
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Statistical inference.