Conformal Carriage Flight Test Program. Part 2. Weapon Separation

Abstract

Conformal carriage represents a new method of carrying stores tangent to the fuselage of an aircraft. Nine to twelve individual bomb racks are housed in an aerodynamically smooth fairing beneath the aircraft fuselage, thus considerably reducing the drag of the installation with or without stores when compared to conventional MER/TER carriage. Supersonic flight with stores was demonstrated in previous tests. Improved separation characteristics were also predicted for this installation because the relatively flat surface should provide smoother air flow over the weapons and the rigid structure should permit higher ejection forces. Approximately 200 weapons were released at speeds of Mach 0.6 to 1.6 and altitudes of 5,000 to 30,000 ft MSL to test the predictions. Ripple and 30-deg dive releases were also investigated using Mk 82, Rockeye II, NSRDC bluff, and M117-M6 bluff bombs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0913290

Entities

People

  • R. E. Smith

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Flow
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Bomb Racks
  • Bombs
  • Carriages
  • Classification
  • Flight
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Mach Number
  • Munitions
  • Supersonic Flight
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow