Verification and Feasibility Study of a Micro-Computer Based Ballistics Algorithm.

Abstract

The radical cost reductions in computer hardware brought about by large scale integration (LSI) has motivated this feasibility study which explores the use of the INTEL 8080 as a ballistics computer in a distributed micro-computer based air-borne tactical weapons system. The results show that software floating point arithmetic using a sixteen bit mantissa is sufficiently accurate for solving the ballistics problem. Experimental data failed to show that mathematical model accurately predicts the weapon's behavior. Either the instrumentation to record the release data was inaccurate, or the ballistics tables do not accurately predict the actual behavior of falling weapons. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA036062

Entities

People

  • John Thomas Ertlschweiger Ii

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Birds
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Error Analysis
  • Experimental Data
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Large Scale Integration
  • Mobile Operating Systems
  • Nanofibers
  • Navigation
  • Operating Systems
  • Slant Range
  • Speed
  • Travel

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Systems Analysis and Design