THE COMPUTATION OF FIRING TABLES FOR GUIDED MISSILES

Abstract

The computation of firing tables for guided missiles is a problem that first arose when the U.S. Army introduced the Redstone Missile into its arsenal of weapons. The repetitive nature of such computations, their continuing requirement, and the turnover in personnel create a need for systemization of computations, applicable for different missile systems and at the same time, not requiring extensive analysis, new computer programs, and training of personnel. Recent work done by the Computing Laboratory of BRL accomplishes this objective and is a significant improvement in the state of the art. This report describes the procedure and includes a realistic example of a typical computational problem

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0809301

Entities

People

  • Harold J. Breaux

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Altitude
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Earth Models
  • Fourier Series
  • Governments
  • Guided Missiles
  • Latitude
  • Launchers
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design