Analysis of Piloted Weapon Delivery: F-4C Dive Bombing.

Abstract

A model of the pilot-aircraft system is used to relate pilot tracking performance to overall weapon delivery accuracy. This permits the evaluation of the control and guidance aspects of manual weapon delivery in terms of the closed-loop parameter of impact error. All essential task problems are evaluated as integral elements of weapon delivery rather than as isolated subsystems. Specifically, a linear expression for impact error is developed in terms of the task variables directly under the pilot's control. By considering each of the pilot inputs to be a random variable, a statistical model of the propagation of the pilot-induced errors into impact errors is developed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0745999

Entities

People

  • Robert John Hovde

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Bombing
  • Dive Bombing
  • Errors
  • Guidance
  • Integrals
  • Random Variables
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Delivery
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.