Gun Display Unit Hardware Interface: Firepower Control Experiment. Part 9

Abstract

From 2 through 20 December 1985, the U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, in cooperation with the U.S. Human Engineering Laboratory, conducted a Firepower Control Experiment. Among other things, this experiment collected information on the communications among the various players who represented the elements of fire direction and support. These elements included fire direction officers, field artillery battery fire direction centers, battery computer systems, and simulated 155-mm howitzer firing units. The purpose of this report is to describe the author's design and his construction of the electronic interface device which allowed commercial computers to intercept messages received over the military communications channels used during the experiment as well as allowing these computers to inject messages over those same communications channels. Keywords: Modulators, Demodulator, Gun display unit, Operational amplifier, 74xxx Series integrated circuit, RS232 Serial interface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA227324

Entities

People

  • Mark D. Kregel

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Artillery
  • Circuits
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Diagrams
  • Engineering
  • Firepower
  • Guns
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Military Communications
  • Operational Amplifiers
  • Radio Communications
  • Research Facilities
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Shift Registers

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems