Atmospheric Effects on 1.06 Micron Laser-Guided Weapons

Abstract

With the advent of laser-guided weapons into the Air Force inventory, it has become an item of high interest to decision makers at many levels, from the aircrews who must deliver the weapons, to the high planning levels of the Air Staff, to better understand the significant limitations that weather places on these weapons. This thesis presents an easily useable model for predicting maximum lock-on ranges for 1.06 micrometer laser-guided weapons as a function of two significant weather factors: surface meteorological range and rainfall rate. In addition, a number of sample calculations based on the model are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA017460

Entities

People

  • Vance A. Hedin

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Masses
  • Atmospheric Attenuation
  • Attenuation
  • Complex Mixtures
  • Ground Based
  • Guided Weapons
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Guided Weapons
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Optics
  • Particle Size
  • Radiation
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Slant Range

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Medical Imaging.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy