Vulnerability and Lethality Testing System (VALTS)

Abstract

This report describes the Vulnerability and Lethality Testing System (VALTS) at the Armament Development and Test Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The VALTS is a fully electronic, high-speed automatic data acquisition system for measuring fragment velocities, fragment dispersion, blast pressure- front velocities, and pressure profiles resulting from statically detonated explosives. The system collects a large quantity of accurately measured data thus substantially reducing the number of test missions required to evaluate the effectiveness of munitions. The VALTS data are reduced in the Center Computer Sciences Laboratory by means of a CDC 6600 computer and ancillary equipment. Three test sites on the Eglin reservation contain VALTS equipment. This report contains a technical description of the VALTS equipment and the techniques employed in data collection.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0909145

Entities

People

  • Sidney O. Shelley

Organizations

  • Air Armament Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Transmission
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Explosives
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Transducers

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems