Evaluation of Air-to-Ground Weapon Delivery Systems Performance

Abstract

The overall performance of a given attack mission system is determined from scoring of each weapon impact with the weapon usually scored in an in-range and cross-range coordinate system. An explanation of why the weapons impacted as they did requires that the major sources of error be determined and examined. This technical memorandum presents a method to isolate and examine weapon system error sources and their effect on weapon impact miss distances. This Technical Memorandum presents an overview of the analysis of weapon delivery system accuracy, specifically, attack mission systems installed in Strike aircraft. This entails determining how accurately a given attack weapon system performed and also requires answering why the demonstrated performance occurred. Presented herein is a method to isolate weapon system error sources and determine their effect upon weapon impact miss distance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 18, 1980
Accession Number
ADA384975

Entities

People

  • Russell D. Newberry

Organizations

  • Naval Air Station Patuxent River

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Airspeed
  • Altitude
  • Bomb Trajectories
  • Classification
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Flight Paths
  • Miss Distance
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Systems Analysis
  • Trajectories
  • Weapon Delivery
  • Weapon Delivery Systems
  • Weapon Systems
  • Wind Velocity

Readers

  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Systems Analysis and Design