Systems Engineering Investigation of Navy Electrical Bomb Fuzing

Abstract

Several recent campaigns have shown that conventional strike warfare demands electrical fuzed weapon systems satisfy a growing requirement for reliability. Additionally, the cost of delivery platforms and the weapons have experienced an upward trend that also places increasing demands on first strike lethality of weapons, survivability of the weapons and delivery platforms, and campaigns that result in rapid resolution. In order to optimize performance and meet these demands, weapon systems must perform reliably, even when considering operator intervention and training. Legacy United States Navy electrical fuzing systems have historically experienced reliability levels that required dual electrical/mechanical fuzing and/or multiple weapons to be assigned to disable/destroy a particular target.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA388279

Entities

People

  • Gary A. Evans

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Bombs
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • General Purpose Bombs
  • Guided Bombs
  • Malfunctions
  • Munitions
  • Satellite Guided Weapons
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Software Engineering