The Improvement in Performance a Ground Combat Vehicle Could Expect From the Use of a Real Time MET Sensor

Abstract

The work presented within suggests new input values for the air temperature and air density portions of an error budget. It then uses those values to compare the performance of several strategies for entering meteorological data into a fire control system. This is accomplished by first defining the expected variation in air temperature and density for an engagement scenario and then using this information to find a standard error that a fire control system would be subject to based on the input strategy chosen. The results show that a real time meteorological sensor would significantly reduce the errors in round delivery that come from air temperature and moderately reduce the errors originating from air density.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA601546

Entities

People

  • Tomas Bober

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pressure
  • Air Temperature
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Control Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Humidity
  • Meteorological Data
  • Standards
  • Time
  • Vehicles
  • Water Vapor
  • Weather
  • Weather Stations

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  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.