Simulation Testing of Weapon Systems

Abstract

The testing of Army weapon systems can be significantly improved through initial use of physical simulation testing. This report discusses two simulators that are available for testing weapons and weapon systems under conditions encountered during their life cycle. The one-degree-of-freedom (1- DOF) simulator provides a variable mounting platform from which weapons can be test fired to assess the effect of the mounting conditions on operability. Sections of vehicles to which weapons are mounted are suspended from the six- degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) simulator, which imparts various vibratory types of motions to the mounted vehicle and weapons fired under these realistic conditions. The report includes a discussion of the data acquisition system which provides immediate analysis of the data obtained from simulation testing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA106821

Entities

People

  • Robert J. Radkiewicz

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Actuators
  • Aircrafts
  • Automatic Cannons
  • Data Acquisition
  • Firing Rate
  • Guns
  • Helicopters
  • Machine Guns
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Test Facilities
  • Vehicles
  • Vibration
  • Weapon Control
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • ballistics.