Shipborne Radar Fire Control From the System Viewpoint
Abstract
Radar fire control involves more than the tracking radar, which is the primary source of target position information during the tracking phase of the fire-control process. The task before the system engineer, concerned with the design of critical evaluation of a fire-control system, is to follow the flow of target information from the search radar which originally detects the target, through the various steps by which the original low-precision target information is finally transformed into high-precision gun orders. Both the time spent in deriving the gun orders and the accuracy of the orders themselves, as well as certain other matters, must be considered in judging the performance of the entire system. The factors effecting data accuracy at each step of the process, as well as the data matching problem presented by the steadily increasing data accuracy required by each successive step, are analyzed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1947
- Accession Number
- AD1204075
Entities
People
- John B. Jr Trevor
- Robert M. Page
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory