Arctic Service Test of Laser Rangefinder AN/GVS-3 under Arctic Winter Conditions.

Abstract

An Arctic Service test was conducted on the Laser Rangefinder, AN/GVS-3, by the U. S. Army Arctic Test Center at Fort Greely, Alaska, from 3 March 1970 to 9 March 1970. One laser operator and a test officer operated, recorded, and analyzed performance characteristics, arctic mounting, rangefinding capability, durability, reaction time, human factors, maintainability and safety of the AN/GVS-3 laser operations under arctic winter conditions at temperatures ranging to -12 F. Equipment was cold-soaked prior to all testing. Testing was conducted at a USATECOM approved range in accordance with USAATC Regulation STEAC-AT-385-1.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0871079

Entities

People

  • Michael G. Rucks

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Equipment
  • Laser Rangefinding
  • Lasers
  • Light Amplifiers
  • Maintainability
  • Optical Equipment
  • Range Finders
  • Range Finding
  • Reaction Time
  • Regulations
  • Resilience

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Materials Science
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy