Preliminary Design Study for a Command-Guided Ballistic Missile Radar.

Abstract

The US Army continues to develop essentially free-flight or ballistics rockets for providing counterbattery and area fire. The free-flight rocket can deliver high volumes of TOT fire for the destruction of high-value time sensitive, area-type targets. If a relatively inexpensive guidance and control package could be integrated into the free-flight rocket such that the accuracy of these missiles was increased to the 2.0-2.5 mil range, their effectiveness against hard point targets could be significantly increased. Such a high-accuracy, command-guided ballistic rocket could replace some general and direct support roles calling for munitions to be delivered on targets with high precision and destructiveness and roles where augumentation fires are delivered in close support of maneuver elements. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 18, 1978
Accession Number
ADA068632

Entities

People

  • E. K. Reedy
  • G. W. Ewell

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Close Support
  • Clutter
  • Cross Polarization
  • Depolarization
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Fire Control Radar
  • Free Flight
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Phase Detectors
  • Polarization
  • Radar
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Radar Signals

Readers

  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Missile Defense Systems.